efforts to mark his 84th birthday, a collection of poems titled 84 Delicious Bottles of Wine was published for Wole Soyinka, edited by Onyeka Nwelue and Odega Shawa. Among the notable contributors was Adamu Usman Garko, award-winning teenage essayist, poet and writer. 1973: Honorary D.Litt., University of Leeds 1973–74: Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge 1983: Elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 1983: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, United States 1986: Nobel Prize for Literature 1986: Agip Prize for Literature 1986: Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR). 1990: Benson Medal from Royal Society of Literature 1993: Honorary doctorate, Harvard University 2002: Honorary fellowship, SOAS 2005: Honorary doctorate degree, Princeton University 2005: Enstooled as the Akinlatun of Egbaland, a Nigerian chief, by the Oba Alake of the Egba clan of Yorubaland. Soyinka became a tribal aristocrat by way of this, one vested with the right to use the Yoruba title Oloye as a pre-nominal honorific. 2009: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Archbishop Desmond Tutu at an awards ceremony at St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa 2013: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Lifetime Achievement, United States 2014: International Humanist Award 2017: Joins the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities 2017: "Special Prize" of the Europe Theatre Prize 2018: University of Ibadan renamed its arts theater to Wole Soyinka Theatre. 2018: Honorary Doctorate Degree of Letters, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB). 2022: Honorary Degree from Cambridge University: This is a degree that is bestowed upon people who have made outstanding achievements in their respective fields. Europe Theatre Prize In 2017, he received the Special Prize of the Europe Theatre Prize, in Rome. The Prize organization stated:A Special Prize is awarded to Wole Soyinka, writer, playwright and poet, Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, who with his work has been able to create an ideal bridge between Europe and Africa (...) With his art and his commitment, Wole Soyinka has contributed to a renewal of African cultural life, participating actively in the dialogue between Africa and Europe, touching on more and more urgent political themes and bringing, in English, richness and beauty to literature, theatre and action in Europe and the four corners of the world. Works Plays Keffi's Birthday Treat (1954) The Invention (1957) The Swamp Dwellers (1958) A Quality