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Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott, and Toni Morrison joined hundreds of audience members last night at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum for an evening of readings in celebration of the 70th birthday of fellow Nobel prize-winner Wole Soyinka, who became the first African to receive the prize...
Gordimer, Walcott and Morrison, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, 1992, and 1993 respectively, all spoke of the profound influence that Soyinka has had on their own work as well as English literature more broadly...
...Being with Soyinka is a bit like I imagine having had the privilege of being with Shakespeare four centuries ago,” Gates says. “After all, as many Africans point out, they have the same initials...
Gates says Soyinka will give one or two public lectures in the spring “so that the members of the broader community can have access...
When asked what the topics of the lectures will be, Soyinka says, “I’m rather spontaneous about things like that. All I can guarantee you is that it won’t be during the intensest period of winter...