A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

"Arts Council Awards for Two Playwrights", Financial Times, 30 Jun 1967, p. 26 Financial Times Historical Archive, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/HS2302880646/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=f0f260bf. Accessed 29 Jun 2019

Lord Goodman, chairman of the Arts Council, is to present awards of 500 each to two playwrights to-day. Wole Soyinka and Tom Stoppard are the first writers to receive the John Whiting Award, which is given to British or Commonwealth playwrights for a play or plays, either read in script form or seen in production during the year, which show a new and distinctive development in dramatic writing... The 1966-67 award will be made jointly to: Wole Soyinka, for plays published in a volume of "Five Plays" including the following produced in this country for the first time during the year. The lion and the jewel (Royal Court Theatre), and Trials of brother Jero (Hamstead Theatre Club); and Tom Stoppard, for his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstein are dead (National Theatre).