Nigéria angol nyelvű regényirodalma
Contemporary Novels Written in English in Nigeria

Summary/Abstract: Among West African authors writing in English three prominent figures hailing from Nigeria have obtained outstanding literary awards. Wole Soyinka received the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature, while Chinua Achebe and Ben Okri both were awarded the Man Booker Prize, among many other literary prizes. The present article reviews their major works of fiction, examines their individual careers as a development of English language creative writing in the wider region of West Africa in the last two decades of the twentieth century.

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