Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, twenty-five plays and five memoirs. He has also written two translated works and many articles and short stories for newspapers and periodicals. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence". The Nobel Prize in Literature 1986, announced October 16, 1986. Wole Soyinka, “who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence”. Wole Soyinka: born 1934, Abeokuta, Nigeria. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).