Chinua Achebe (1930–2013)
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Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria. He studied English, history and theology at University College in Ibadan from 1948 to 1953. After receiving a second-class degree, he taught for a while before joining the Nigeria Broadcasting Service in 1954. He was visa mer working as a broadcaster when he wrote his first two novels, and then quit working to devote himself to writing full time. Unfortunately his literary career was cut short by the Nigerian Civil War. During this time he supported the ill-fated Biafrian cause and served abroad as a diplomat. He and his family narrowly escaped assassination. After the civil war, he abandoned fiction for a period in favor of essays, short stories, and poetry. His works include Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, No Longer at Ease, A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah, and There Was a Country. He also wrote four children's books including Chike and the River and How the Leopard Got His Claws. In 2007, he won the Man Booker International Prize for his "overall contribution to fiction on the world stage." He also worked as a professor of literature in Nigeria and the United States. He died following a brief illness on March 21, 2013 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Things Fall Apart : No Longer At Ease : Anthills of the Savannah (Voices of the African Diaspora) (1987) 27 exemplar
Dead Men's Path 4 exemplar
Sugar Baby [short story] 4 exemplar
Už nikdy klid 2 exemplar
Marriage is a Private Affair 2 exemplar
Civil Peace 2 exemplar
Things fall apart : [episodes 1 through 13] 1 exemplar
හිරු බැස ගිය පසු 1 exemplar
Things fall apart 1 exemplar
Okike: An African Journal of New Writing 1 exemplar
Human Mine Sweeper 1 exemplar
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A World of Ideas : Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our… (1989) — Interviewee — 548 exemplar
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 339 exemplar
Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 187 exemplar
African Rhapsody: Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience (1994) — Förord, vissa utgåvor — 16 exemplar
Cry Sorrow, Cry Joy! Selections from Contemporary African Writers (1971) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Achebe, Albert Chinụalụmọgụ
- Födelsedag
- 1930-11-16
- Avled
- 2013-03-21
- Begravningsplats
- Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Nigeria
- Födelseort
- Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria Protectorate
- Dödsort
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Ogidi, Nigeria
Nekede, Nigeria
Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria
Oba, Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria
Enugu, Nigeria (visa alla 12)
Aba, Biafra
Nsukku, Nigeria
Nneobi, Nigeria
Annandale, New York, USA
Massachusetts, USA
Providence, Rhode Island, USA - Utbildning
- University College, Ibadan, Nigeria
University of London - Yrken
- broadcaster
professor
novelist
short-story writer
poet
school teacher - Relationer
- Okigbo, Christopher (friend)
- Organisationer
- Anambra State University of Technology
Bard College
Brown University
Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation - Priser och utmärkelser
- Booker Prize (2007)
Visiting professorship (University of Massachusetts-Amherst ∙ University of Connecticut ∙ UCLA)
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (2002)
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Honorary Fellowship.
Nigerian National Merit Award - Kort biografi
- Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He was raised in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centers of Anglican missionary work in Eastern Nigeria, and was a graduate of University College, Ibadan.
His early career in radio ended abruptly in 1966, when he left his post as Director of External Broadcasting in Nigeria during the national upheaval that led to the Biafran War. He was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and began lecturing widely abroad.
From 1972 to 1976, and again in 1987 to 1988, Mr. Achebe was Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and also for one year at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Cited in the London Sunday Times as one of the "1,000 Makers of the Twentieth Century" for defining "a modern African literature that was truly African" and thereby making "a major contribution to world literature," Chinua Achebe published novels, short stories, essays and children's books. [adapted from Things Fall Apart, c1959, 1994 printing Anchor Books Ed.]
Mr. Achebe received numerous honors from around the world including more than twenty honorary doctorates from universities in England, Scotland, the United States, Canada, and Nigeria.
Latterly Mr. Achebe lived with his wife in Annandale, New York, where they both taught at Bard College. They had four children.
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Things Fall Apart Chapters 18-25/END i Geeks who love the Classics (februari 2022)
Things Fall Apart Chapters 9-17 i Geeks who love the Classics (februari 2022)
Things Fall Apart Chapters 1-8 i Geeks who love the Classics (januari 2022)
Things Fall Apart Jan-March 2022 Housekeeping Items i Geeks who love the Classics (januari 2022)
November 2020: Chinua Achebe i Monthly Author Reads (december 2020)
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