Wole Soyinka Bibliography

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#1	Plays
1954	Keffi's Birthday Treat
1957	The Invention
1959	The Lion and the Jewel
1960	My Father's Burden
1960	The Tortoise
1960	The Old Boys' Dinner
1960	A Dance of the Forests
1962	The House of Banigeji, Act 2
1963	The Swamp Dwellers
1963	The Trials of Brother Jero
1963	The Strong Breed
1964	The Republican
1965	Kongi's Harvest
1965	The Road
1965	The Detainee
1966	Jero's Metamorphosis
1971	Madmen and Specialists
1973	The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite
1973	Camwood on the Leaves
1975	Death and the King's Horseman

#2	Short Stories
1956	Oji River
1958	Madame Etienne's Establishment

#3	Essays
1959	Cor, Teach
1960	Oga Look Properly
1960	The Future of West African Writing
1963	Amos Tutuola on Stage
1965	Who Invented the Teenager?
1966	Of Power and Change
1996	A Flawed Origin - But No Worse Than Others
1996	The Spoils of Power: The Buhari-Shagari Casebook
1996	The National Question: Internal Imperatives
1996	Epilogue: Death of an Activist
1996	Swear in Abiola
1996	Abacha's Ultimate Insult: An Eternal Transition Program
2011	The Dark Continent, or Beholder's Cataract?
2011	Children of Herodotus
2011	Fictioning of the Fourth Dimension
2011	Thus Spake Orunmila: Africa as Arbitrating Voice
2012	A Choice of Chains
2012	Not 'A Way of Life', But a Guide to Existence
2012	The Spirituality of a Continent
2012	Epilogue: Civilisation - Dead or Alive!
2019	Oga, Na Original Fake, I Swear
2019	Procreative Deities: The Orisa's Triumphal March
2019	From Aso-Ebi to Nollywood

#4	Poems
1961	Death in the Dawn
1961	Abiku
1962	Season
1964	Luo Plains
1967	Dawn
1967	Around Us, Dawning
1967	In Memory of Segun Awolowo
1967	The Dreamer
1967	The Hunchback of Dugbe
1967	The Last Lamp
1967	Easter
1967	Koko Oloro
1967	Dedication
1967	A Cry in the Night
1967	A First Deathday
1967	For the Piper Daughters
1967	To My First White Hairs
1967	Post Mortem
1967	Song: Deserted Markets
1967	Psalm
1967	Her Joy Is Wild
1967	Black Singer
1967	Bringer of Peace
1967	To One, in Labour
1967	In Paths of Rain
1967	By Little Loving
1967	I Think It Rains
1967	Prisoner
1967	Night
1967	Fado Singer
1967	Ikeja, Friday, Four O'Clock
1967	Harvest of Hate
1967	Massacre, October '66
1967	Civilian and Soldier
1967	For Fajuyi
1967	Malediction
1967	Preface to Idanre
1967	Idanre
1969	Live Burial
1969	Flowers for My Land
1972	O Roots!
1972	Conversation at Night with a Cockroach
1972	A Cobweb's Touch in the Dark
1972	When Seasons Change
1972	To the Madmen Over the Wall
1972	I Anoint My Flesh (Tenth Day of Fast)
1972	Joseph (To Mrs Potiphar)
1972	Hamle
1972	Gulliver
1972	Ulysses: Notes from Here to My Joyce Class
1972	Wailing Wall
1972	Wall of Mists
1972	Amber Wall
1972	Purgatory
1972	Vault Centre
1972	Procession
1972	Last Turning (The Last Among the Five)
1972	Recession (Mahapralaya)
1972	Hunt of the Stone
1972	Space
1972	Seed
1972	Animistic Spells
1972	Background and Friezes
1972	Future Plans
1972	Relief (or Wedding in a Minor Key)
1972	Capital
1972	Ujamaa (for Julius Nyerere)
1972	Ever-Ready Bank Accounts
1972	Après la Guerre
1972	Journey
1972	And What of It If Thus He Died?
1972	For Christopher Okigbo

#5	Play Collections
1963	Three Short Plays
1972	The Jero Plays
1973	Collected Plays, Volume I
1974	Collected Plays, Volume II

#6	Novels
1965	The Interpreters
1973	Season of Anatomy
2021	Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

#7	Poetry Collections
1967	Idanre and Other Poems
1969	Poems from Prison
1972	A Shuttle in the Crypt

#8	Memoirs
1972	The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
1981	Aké: The Years of Childhood
1989	Ìsarà: A Voyage Around 'Essay'
1994	Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years - A Memoir 1946-1965
2006	You Must Set Forth at Dawn

#9	Essay Collections
1996	The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis
2011	Harmattan Haze on an African Spring
2019	Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse and Dissonance in African Art Traditions

#10	Non-Fiction Books
1999	The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness
2005	Climate of Fear
2012	Of Africa

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