Wole Soyinka(Nigeria) Vs Gabriel Garcia Marquez(Colombia) :Both men are internationally acclaimed writers and distinguished scholars.Soyinka was born in July 1934 while Marquez was born in March 1927.Soyinkas parents were privileged and influential during their lifetime while Maquezs parents were not as fortunate as Soyinkas parents.The Colombian author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 at the age of 55 while Soyinka received his own Nobel prize exactly 4 years later in 1986 at the age of 52.Most of Marquezs books x-rayed the philosophy of life;poverty in the midst of riches,hunger in the midst of abundant food.Soyinka was born into a Christian family but nobody remembers his last visit to a church.Marquez was born into a Catholic family.Soyinka earned the sobriquet of Africas William Shakespeare because he is a dramatist but Marquez was purely a talented novelist with a gripping imagination.The Colombian writer like his Brazilian counterpart(Paulo Coelho)from their teenage years discovered their passion for creative writing but Soyinka...#To Be Continued#
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