# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wole-soyinka
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:51:59.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wole-soyinka"
name: "Wole Soyinka"
slug: "wole-soyinka"
description: "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\"."
tagline: "Nigerian writer (born 1934)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WoleSoyinka2015_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "NG"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-07-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           24.51768
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  19
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0816432"
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    url:       "https://www.wolesoyinkafoundation.org/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-country-fill