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SOYINKA, WALCOTT AND MORRISON:
BLACK NOBEL LAUREATES IN LITERATURE
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to three writers of African descent: Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), and Toni Morrison (United States). Following is a selected bibliography on the history of the Nobel Prize, and the work of these distinguished writers. Items marked with an asterisk (*) were placed on exhibition in the Morris Library from January 9 - April 28, 1995. For additional books by or about these authors, check DELCAT, the University of Delaware Library online catalog. A number of periodical indexes can provide readers with citations to journal literature by or about the authors, including the Expanded Academic Index (online database on DELPLUS) and the MLA Bibliography (CD-ROM index on LERN).
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Espmark, Kjell. The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Study of the Criteria
behind the Choices. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986.
PN 171 .P75 L5413 1991
Magill, Frank N., ed. The Nobel Prize Winners: Literature. 3 vols.
Pasadena, Calif.: Salem, 1987.
REF PN 451 .N63 1987
Meyers, Jeffrey. "The Nobel Prize and Literary Politics." In Dictionary
of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1988. Detroit: Gale, 1988.
REF PS 221 .D527 1988
Wasson, Tyler, ed. Nobel Prize Winners: An H. W. Wilson Biographical
Dictionary. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1987.
REF AS 911 .N9 N59 1987
WORKS BY WOLE SOYINKA
*Ake: The Years of Childhood. London: Rex Collings, 1981.
PR 9387.9 .S6 Z462
*Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture. New
York: Pantheon Books, 1993.
PR 9387.9 .S6 A88 1993
*Before the Blackout. Ibadan, Nigeria: Orisun Acting Editions, 1965?
SPEC COLL
PR 9387.7 .S6 1965
*Credo of Being and Nothingness: First in the series of Olufosoye Annual
Lectures on Religions, Delivered at the University of Ibadan, on 25
January, 1991. Ibadan, Nigeria: Spectrum, 1991.
BD 331 .S68 1991
*A Dance of the Forests. London: Oxford University Press, Three Crowns
Book, 1963.
SPEC COLL
PR 9387.9 .S6 D3 1963
Death and the King's Horseman. New York: Norton, 1975.
PR 9387.9 .S6 D4 1975
*Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years, a Memoir. London: Methuen, 1994.
PR 9387.9 .S6 Z464x 1994
*Idanre & Other Poems. New York: Hill and Wang, 1968.
PR 6037 .O98 A18 1968
Isara: A Voyage around "Essay." New York: Random House, 1989.
PR 9387.9 .S6 Z466 1989
*The Lion and the Jewel. London: Oxford University Press, Three Crowns
Book, 1963.
SPEC COLL
PR 9387.9 .S6 L56 1963
The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka. London: Rex Collings,
1972; reprint, New York: Noonday, 1988.
PR 9387.9 .S6 Z47 1988
*Poems from Prison. London: Rex Collings; London: Trigram, 1969 .
SPEC COLL
PR 9387.9 .S6 P64x 1969
"This Past Must Address Its Present: Dedicated to Nelson Mandela." In
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1986, 8-18. Detroit:
Gale, 1986. (The Nobel Lecture.)
REF PS 221 .D527 1986
*"Three Poems." Black Orpheus (Ibadan, Nigeria), no. 5 (May 1959): 9.
PL 8000 .B6
*Transition: An International Review (Kampala, Uganda). (Soyinka serves
as chief of the editorial board.)
DT 1 .T73
WORKS ABOUT WOLE SOYINKA
Coger, Greta M. K. Index of Subjects, Proverbs, and Themes in the Writing
of Wole Soyinka. New York: Greenwood, 1988.
PR 9387.9 .S6 Z54 1988
Gibbs, James, Ketu H. Katrak, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., comp. Wole
Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood, 1986.
Z 8828.73 .G5 1986
Jones, Eldred Durosimi. The Writing of Wole Soyinka. 3d ed. London:
James Currey; Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1988.
PR 9387.9 .S6 Z7 1988
*Maja-Pearce, Adewale. Who's Afraid of Wole Soyinka: Essays on
Censorship. London: Heinemann, 1991.
Z 658 .A357 M35x 1991
*Morell, Karen L., ed. In Person--Achebe, Awooner, and Soyinka at the
University of Washington. Seattle: African Studies Program, Institute
for Comparative and Foreign Area Studies, University of Washington,
1975
PR 9340 .I5
Wright, Derek. Wole Soyinka Revisted. New York: Twayne, 1993.
PR 9387.9 .S6 Z97 1993
WORKS BY DEREK WALCOTT
*Another Life. London: J. Cape, 1973.
SPEC COLL
PR 9272.9 .W3 A8 1973b
*The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory. New York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1992. [The Nobel Lecture.]
PR 9272.9 .W3 A58x 1992
*The Arkansas Testament. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987.
PR 9272.9 .W3 A85 1987
*The Caribbean Poetry of Derek Walcott & the Art of Romare Bearden.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1983.
SPEC COLL
PR 9272.9 .W3 A6 1983
*The Castaway and Other Poems. London: J. Cape, 1965.
PR 6045 .A355 A18 1965
*Derek Walcott. Interview by Bill Moyers. World of Ideas with Bill
Moyers Season I Series. Produced and directed by Catherine Tatge.
29 min. Alexandria, Va.: PBS Video, 1988. Videocassette.
MEDIA - VIDEOTAPE
VHS 1658
*Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays. New York: Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 1970.
SPEC COLL
PR 9272.9 .W35 D74x 1970
*Drums and Colours: An Epic Drama Commissioned for the Opening of
the First Federal Parliament of the West Indies, April 23rd, 1958.
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: Caribbean Quarterly, 1961. (Caribbean
Quarterly special issue, Vol. 7, nos. 1 and 2, March-June, 1961.)
SPEC COLL
PR 9272.9 .W3 D78 1961
*In a Green Night: Poems, 1948-1960. London: J. Cape; London:
Shenval Press, 1962.
SPEC COLL
PR 6073 .A38 I5 1962
*Midsummer, Tobago. London: Poems on the Underground, n.d.
SPEC COLL
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*The Odyssey: A Stage Version. London: Faber and Faber, 1993.
PR 9272.9 .W3 O39x 1993
*Omeros. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.
PR 9272.9 .W329 O44 1990
*Poems 1965-1980. London: J. Cape, 1992.
PR 9272.9 .W3 A17x 1992
Sea Grapes. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.
PR 9272.9 .W3 S4 1976
*"Wales." In Twenty-One Broadsides: Poems & Prose from the 1982-1983
THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY WAS AUTHORED BY:
Carol A. Rudisell
Librarian
University of Delaware Library
