by Wole Soyinka · Walter · tapa dura · ISBN 9783530952612
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«Die Ausleger» is the novel by Wole Soyinka originally published in English as 'The Interpreters'; this German hardcover edition is from Walter and has 379 pages.
The novel follows a group of young Nigerian intellectuals in Lagos after independence. Through their conversations and experiences, Soyinka portrays the search for identity and the tensions of a society shaken by corruption and social change in modern Nigeria.
The original work appeared in 1965 and received the Jock Campbell-New Statesman Award in 1968; this German edition was published in 1983.
A work of interest for readers of African literature and twentieth-century fiction, especially post-independence Nigerian narrative.
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, twenty-five plays and five memoirs. He has also written two translated works and many articles and short stories for newspapers and periodicals. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "wide cultural perspective and poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence".
