The Interpreters

by Wole Soyinka

Overview

Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka’s debut novel tells the story of a group of friends facing political corruption and cultural uncertainty in post-independence Nigeria.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781035906048
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	01/14/2025
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Wole Soyinka is a playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934.

Soyinka won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature with his debut novel, The Interpreters, becoming the first-ever African laureate and has since won many other prizes such as the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009 and the Anisfield-Wolf book Award, Lifetime Achievement in 2012.

A prominent political activist, Soyinka was imprisoned for nearly two years during the Nigerian Civil War and was later exiled. He continues to fight against government corruption and oppression worldwide.

Editorial Reviews

"The novel is rich in well-turned individual scenes. . . . it is a work in which the esthetic and political problems are meshed in an almost classical way."
—The New York Times

"It is elaborately, strikingly and indeed often beautifully written."
—The Times
  
"A great steaming marsh of a novel. . . brimful of promise and life."
—New Statesmen
  
"The first African novel that has a texture of real complexity and depth."
—Gerald Moore, The New African

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