MikeofAfrica:


Achebe won the Commonwealth Poetry Award in 1972 . He published more than five Poetry works.

MikeofAfrica:


You really don't know the process of giving an award such as the Nobel Prize.

All the books of an authors will earn him a nomination . To win the award, an author needs to have a masterclass book that is more intellectually sound than each of the other books written by his/ her competitors.

However the issue is that the Nobel Prize has long been compromised. The last winner of the award is Mrs. Annie Ernaux from France.

She is not known to have written any popular poetry, novel, drama or play. She simply wrote series of autobiography about her life experiences.

The French played the underground politics for her and she won the award. Hence very soon, some kids from France will be arguing that Annie Ernaux is better than James Joyce and William Shakespeare that never won the Nobel Prize.

Forget the Nobel Prize. If you have the money and international connections today, all you need to do to win the award is to hire a lecturer in Nigeria to write your autobiography on your behalf.

Obaaderemi2:
You people never learn. The award is for the author based on his works and not a particular book.

Money and connection are what you need to win the Nobel prize?

Yugoslavia247:


Chimmanda is Achebe intellectual offspring.
Show me Soyinka own

PulaPower:


Politics can’t win you a Nobel laureate. You people with self-imaginations that are wrong ehh. Different institutions all around the world would first review all your collective works. Then after they’re done, they’ll pick the major contestant.

Then another set of institutions would further review all contestants. They’ll select the main contestants that are qualified for final review! The contestants that made it for the final review would then go through further review by another set of institutions all around the world! It’s one tough award to win! The time taken to pick the winner isn’t joke!

So politics can’t win you it! It’s not something that’s been decided by mere groups, but collectives from all continents. Go and check the contestants that WS got nominated with, then you’d know the man is beyond all these things you people are saying here..

Annie Ernaux - what made her won isn’t what you mentioned. You get awarded for a Nobel prize not for a single work, but for a life’s work. I heard this her project * A Man's Place and A Woman's Story* earned her alot and was part of her success. It was published in 1988..

So politics is far from what can get you a Nobel!

Yugoslavia247:


Oga go and sit down.

Do you know how many writers reject nobel prize.

You think they care.

hardbody:


https://www.nairaland.com/7646592/did-wole-soyinka-betray-other#122400380

What he did is typical of his people.

Sangoamadioha1:




Don't you think the fault is your intellectual capacity

jagorinho:

Answer my question, did Achebe ever near clinching Nobel prize talkless of rejecting it? You want to compare a father Xmas prose writer with an enigma in African literature? Seems mmpuru mmiri is still ravaging your region .

Christian36:
Just keep your mouth shut. Soyinka only won it once, Chimamanda Who should be the age of Soyinka children has won it thrice and you are here vomiting rubbish.

kay29000:


Chimamanda won Nobel Prize three times??

Na wa for some of you people o.

Yugoslavia247:
Things fall apart
Arrow of God
There was a country
No longer at ease
A man of the people
Anthill of the savannah

MikeofAfrica:


So Annie Ernaux is presently the best author in the world.

Her autobiography is better than the books of all reknown authors that are yet to win the Nobel Prize.

Go to bed. You are too naive to discuss international politics.

Christian36:
Just keep your mouth shut. Soyinka only won it once, Chimamanda Who should be the age of Soyinka children has won it thrice and you are here vomiting rubbish.

Obaaderemi2:
MikeofAfrica, come and see your fellow illiterate.

Yugoslavia247:
Things fall apart
Arrow of God
There was a country
No longer at ease
A man of the people
Anthill of the savannah

othermen:
Achebe is one of our greatest export.

His classic “Things fall apart” is a testament to this.

There are those that think the quality of a book should be measured by its popularity or by how popular it’s.

Without alluding to any such deficient premises; the argument for Professor Achebe being a top-top author is still easy to make.

The fixation that Achebe is not a top author because he didn’t get the prize for literature is another deficient line of reasoning. Achebe himself legitimized such, by his subtle inverse valuation of the prize validation. Achebe had suggested that such a prize do not bereft him of being “Asiwaju” of Africa’s literature.

Achebe had his right to boast, or to engage in any such self-absorption. His last contribution in “There was a country” was a longer testament to such tendencies of Soyinka as his contempore adversary or the rest of Nigeria as an adversary to the ambition of his east.

Christian36:
I mean to say he won three different prizes similar to the main one.

Obaaderemi2:
Illiterate, Annie Emaux is the best rated international writer for now. Her works are very deep, not for low grade readers like you. Stick to James Hadley Chase.

Minjim:


Should the quality of a song be measured by popularity, Or experts opinions?

All these because Achebe wasn't good enough to win a Noble.

Ask around literally world, everyone knows who's Mvp of literature between Wole and Achebe.

Christian36:
It has nothing to do with intellectual capacity. Take a book of Achebe and that of Soyinka and ready it, you will know that the difference is clear.

Minjim:


Wole Soyinka, unlike Achebe is not just a novelist, he's a poet, novelist, playwright and a political activists.

If you're not a literary student you won't come across much of his works. I only read
I've read and appraised many of his work while in school so I can mention more than 5 of it

Trial of brother Jero ( play)
The man died (non-fiction novel)
Abiku. (Poem)
Season of Anomy ( 2nd novel)
The Interpreter ( his debut novel)
The lion and the jewel ( play)
The beatification of Area boy(play)

Won't. Soyinka's versatility is what sets him miles ahead of his contemporaries. He could delve into any genre and distinguish himself conveniently. Achebe's works are that difficult to appraise for literature students unlike Wole Soyinka's

Minjim:


Wole Soyinka, unlike Achebe is not just a novelist, he's a poet, novelist, playwright and a political activists.

If you're not a literary student you won't come across much of his works. I only read
I've read and appraised many of his work while in school so I can mention more than 5 of it

Trial of brother Jero ( play)
The man died (non-fiction novel)
Abiku. (Poem)
Season of Anomy ( 2nd novel)
The Interpreter ( his debut novel)
The lion and the jewel ( play)
The beatification of Area boy(play)

Won't. Soyinka's versatility is what sets him miles ahead of his contemporaries. He could delve into any genre and distinguish himself conveniently. Achebe's works are that difficult to appraise for literature students unlike Wole Soyinka's

Christian36:
Go and do your research.

Christian36:
Just keep your mouth shut. Soyinka only won it once, Chimamanda Who should be the age of Soyinka children has won similar prize thrice and you are here vomiting rubbish.