Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel Prize winner, has said he wished to travel to Stockholm before he clocks 100 years to celebrate another Nigerian winning.
The Nobel Prize for Literature Winner, Soyinka, in an interview, urged that young writers should not just publish once and relax, adding that consistency is key to getting to the world stage.
The octogenarian posited that the writing world is a competitive one and that the females are taking the lead.
Professor Wole Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has expressed optimism about seeing another Nigerian winning the highest prize in the literary world before he clocks 100 years.
The octogenarian stated this in an exclusive interview with Channels Television. Soyinka said there are “remarkable competitions between Nigerian writers, males and females and writers in the African continent.
Wole Soyinka expresses optimism that another Nigerian will win the Nobel Prize before clocking 100
Soyinka noted that Nigeria is flooded with talents in the Arts and that he felt the country has “an unfair size of candidates qualifiers” to win the Nobel Prize.
The playwright asserted while responding to a question on how he felt because he had won the Nobel Prize in literature 40 years ago.
Soyinka: Nigerian women taking the lead in writing. He commended Nigerian women writers for taking the lead in ditching out creative works. He added that he had always informed his male colleagues that the women were taking over, beating them and that they needed to buckle up. .
Soyinka warned writers that managing to publish once, self-publish in particular, did not translate to being a “starling writer”, and that consistency is the key to getting to the world stage in creativity parlance.
His comment reads in part: “You just got to keep working and working, and hopefully before I’m 100, I’ll be going to Stockholm to celebrate another Nigerian.
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