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Presentation of the Gold Medal "For contribution to the development of world literature" of the WOW Prize to the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka from the World Organization of WOW Writers at the reception by the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco. The award was presented by Margarita Al, President of the World Organization of WOW Writers in Rabat, Morocco on Tuesday, July 9, 2024.

Africa celebrates Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, in Morocco

Presentation of the Gold Medal “For contribution to the development of world literature” of the WOW Prize to the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka from the World Organization of WOW Writers at the reception by the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco.
The award was presented by Margarita Al, President of the World Organization of WOW Writers in Rabat, Morocco on Tuesday, July 9, 2024.

A high point of the historic event, which held at The Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, Rabat, Morocco, in commemoration of Professor Soyinka’s 90th birthday, was the

presentation of the Gold Medal “For contribution to the development of world literature” of the WOW Prize to Professor Soyinka from the World Organization of WOW Writers.
The award was presented by Margarita Al, President of the World Organization of WOW Writers  at the Reception by the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco.
The program featured a Symposium, Poetry Readings and a Gala Night, all in honour of Soyinka, a foremost novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and activist, as well as the first Black African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.

Professor Soyinka was born on July 13, 1934 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, and among his best known works are The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole SoyinkaDeath and the King’s HorsemanThe Lion and the Jewel, Kongi’s Harvest, The Trials of Brother JeroThe Interpreters,  A Shuttle in the CryptAke: The Years of ChildhoodIdanre, and Season of Anomy.

The Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco is a multidisciplinary public institution with legal and financial autonomy. It was, according to Wikipedia, founded by King Hassan 11 on October 8, 1977, “with the objective of contributing to the development and promotion of scientific research, particularly in the fields of humanities, culture and arts.”

PAWA, on its part, is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), based in Ghana, which serves as an umbrella body of writers across the African continent and the Diaspora. It has as its Secretary General, Dr. Wale Okediran, a former National President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), a former federal legislator and a trained medical doctor turned author of 14 novels and two collections of Travel Stories, some of which have won Literary Prizes within and outside Nigeria.   

 

 

 

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