Soyinka was Africa's first Nobel laureate in literature, winning in 1986 for writing that "in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence".
She was the first author from outside Britain to receive the Carnegie Medal, Britain's top award for children's literature, winning it in 1982 for "The Haunting" and in 1984 for "The Changeover".
After graduating from the University of Texas, where he concentrated in German, Italian and English literature, he won a Fulbright fellowship to study theater in Europe.
The Liberal Democrats, with the help of pictures of the half-finished shell on their election literature, then won control of the council.
Ms. Alexander has been on the faculty of several universities, including the University of Chicago, where she taught creative writing and African-American literature and won the Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
E. L. Konigsburg, a children's author and illustrator who twice received the nation's highest award in children's literature — she won it in 1968 for her second book, edging out the runner-up, which was her own first book — died on Friday in Falls Church, Va.
Our literature about winning and success is the very foundation of our belief that we can always overcome and get it done.
The jury in Frankfurt said it was honoring "one of the most important literature critics in the German-speaking world," who "through his decades-long work, in his singular way, made literature popular and won new circles of readers".
He went to Columbia University planning to study literature, but practicality won out and he went to law school.
Still, it had been more than half a century since a non-fiction writer – Winston Churchill in 1953 – had won literature's top award.
