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  Wole Soyinka, in full Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Date of Birth: 13th July 1934Place of Birth: NigeriaAchievement: He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honoured in that category. Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta.