在当代有世界影响的大作家中，尼日利亚作家、1986年度诺贝尔文学奖获得者渥莱·索因卡（1934— ）的作品无疑属于最难读懂的。瑞典学院诺贝尔奖委员会主席拉尔斯·格伦斯坦承认索因卡的小说和诗歌“深奥复杂”，认为他的戏剧“暖昧费解”。美国的研究者奥比·麦达克称索因卡的小说《解释者》是“一部困难的作品”。本恩·林德斯福认为， Among the great writers affected by the contemporary world, the works of the Nigerian writer and Nobel Prize winner of the year Wolle Soyinka (1934-) are undoubtedly the most difficult to read. Lars Grunstein, president of the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Prize Committee, acknowledged Sokinca’s novel “esoteric complexity” and his poetry as “enigmatic and convoluted.” Aubrey Maddac, a researcher in the United States, claims Soyinka’s novel The Interpreter is “a difficult work.” Ben Lynndorf thinks,