Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka returns with new novel after nearly 50 years
New Delhi Sep 28 PTI A new novel Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth released on Tuesday marks the return of Africas first Nobel laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka after a hiatus of almost 50 years publishing house Bloomsbury India announcedThe Nigerian novelist equally well-known for his poems plays and essays wrote his last novel Season of Anomy in 1973An unforgettable portrait of contemporary Nigeria Soyinkas latest work is both a gripping whodunit and a sharply satirical state-of-the-nation novelBristling with wit and rage in equal measure and delivered with an enormous generosity of spirit and a dazzling lightness of touch Wole Soyinka speaks truth to power as ever with a tour de force from a master storyteller at the height of his powers the publishers said in a statementSoyinka 87 became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 His first novel The Interpreters was published in 1965 He has also written three autobiographical volumes Ak The Years of Childhood sar A Voyage Around Essay and IbadanHis notable plays include The Jero Plays The Road The Lion and the Jewel Madmen and Specialists and From Zia With LoveChronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth has also been endorsed by the Booker-Prize winner Nigerian poet and novelist Ben OkriA vivid and wild romp A vast danse macabre No one else can write such a book Like Henry James like Conrad like Nabokov Chronicles is Soyinkas greatest novel It ought to be widely read said the author of The Famished Road about the book PTI MG MAH MAH
New Delhi Sep 28 PTI A new novel Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth released on Tuesday marks the return of Africas first Nobel laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka after a hiatus of almost 50 years publishing house Bloomsbury India announcedThe Nigerian novelist equally well-known for his poems plays and essays wrote his last novel Season of Anomy in 1973An unforgettable portrait of contemporary Nigeria Soyinkas latest work is both a gripping whodunit and a sharply satirical state-of-the-nation novelBristling with wit and rage in equal measure and delivered with an enormous generosity of spirit and a dazzling lightness of touch Wole Soyinka speaks truth to power as ever with a tour de force from a master storyteller at the height of his powers the publishers said in a statementSoyinka 87 became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 His first novel The Interpreters was published in 1965 He has also written three autobiographical volumes Ak The Years of Childhood sar A Voyage Around Essay and IbadanHis notable plays include The Jero Plays The Road The Lion and the Jewel Madmen and Specialists and From Zia With LoveChronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth has also been endorsed by the Booker-Prize winner Nigerian poet and novelist Ben OkriA vivid and wild romp A vast danse macabre No one else can write such a book Like Henry James like Conrad like Nabokov Chronicles is Soyinkas greatest novel It ought to be widely read said the author of The Famished Road about the book PTI MG MAH MAH
