Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017)
Autor/a de The Joys of Motherhood
Sobre l'autor
Buchi Emecheta was born in Lagos, Nigeria on July 21, 1944. She emigrated to London, England in 1960. She received a sociology degree at the University of London. She worked as a social worker for a number of years and contributed a column to the New Statesman about black British life. She wrote 20 mostra'n més novels during her lifetime including The Joys of Motherhood, The Rape of Shavi, Second Class Citizen, Into the Ditch, The Bride Price, and The New Tribe. Her first play, A Kind of Marriage, was screened on BBC TV in 1976 and was adapted into a novel in 1986. Her autobiography was entitled Head Above Water. In 2005, she was made an OBE for services to literature. She died on January 25, 2017 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Buchi Emecheta
Obres associades
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Col·laborador — 159 exemplars
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Col·laborador — 82 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Emecheta, Buchi
- Nom oficial
- Emecheta, Florence Onye Buchi
- Data de naixement
- 1944-07-21
- Data de defunció
- 2017-01-25
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Nigeria
- Lloc de naixement
- Lagos, Nigeria
- Lloc de defunció
- London, England, UK
- Causa de la mort
- dementia
- Llocs de residència
- Yaba, Nigeria
London, England, UK
Calabar, Nigeria - Educació
- University of London (sociology)
- Professions
- writer
professor - Organitzacions
- Ogwugwu Afor Publishing Company
- Premis i honors
- Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983)
OBE
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
AP Lit (1)
Read These Too (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 24
- També de
- 9
- Membres
- 2,396
- Popularitat
- #10,715
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 52
- ISBN
- 179
- Llengües
- 13
- Preferit
- 5