THE INTERPRETERS

349pp., paperback, Reprint, London, (1965) 2024

Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Soyinka's debut novel set in post-independence Nigeria.

A group of friends who have returned to Nigeria after studying abroad struggle to reconcile the cultural traditions and Western influences that shaped them.

Playwright, poet, essayist and academic Wole Soyinka was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1934. His body of work includes the novels Season of Anomy (1973) and Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (2021). A political activist, Soyinka was imprisoned for nearly two years during the Nigerian Civil War and was later exiled.