Prof Wole Soyinka
Professor Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s Nobel laureate leads a three-horse race for the position of Oxford professor of poetry, a 300-year-old elected post which is seen as the top academic poetry role in the United Kingdom.
The Guardian of London said Soyinka, with more than 90 nominations, has a strong support to win the seat, held in the past by writers from Matthew Arnold to Seamus Heaney.
He will be competing for the post with Ian Gregson, a poet, literary critic and professor of creative writing at Bangor University who was backed by 54 graduates.
Seán Haldane, a poet, award-winning novelist and …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
