Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London

ARTS, AFRICA, LITERATURE, writer, Achievement, Announcement
Date: 
17 October 1986
Collection: 
Centre for African Literary Studies
Creator: 
BBC African Sevice
Contributor: 
Bernth Lindfors Collection
Resource Type: 
Interviews
Language: 
English
Coverage: 
South Africa
Resource Identifier: 
ALS 4/5 - The Bernth Lindfors African Literature Collection - BBC African Service London
File Type: 
Document
Extent: 
5 pages
Rights Holder: 
UKZN - Centre for African Literary Studies

This programme will be considering Wole Soyinka's achievement and what it means for African Literature after it was announced that the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literarture has been awarded to the Nigerian writer, best known as a playwright and poet. This, of course, is the first time that the world's most prestigious literary prise has gone to an African writer.

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