by Wole Soyinka · Circulo De Lectores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422622390
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«Los intérpretes» is the novel by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, published in 1987 by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (100 pages, in Spanish).
Soyinka's first novel, originally published in 1965, follows a group of young Nigerian intellectuals in post-independence Lagos. The characters seek their personal and collective roots in a society marked by corruption and the clash between tradition and modernity.
The work won the Jock Campbell-New Statesman Award in 1968; the original title is The Interpreters.
For readers of African literature and twentieth-century classics, particularly those who want to approach the narrative work of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka.
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".
