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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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Chinua Achebe

Tot se'n va en orris (1958) 20,532 exemplars
No Longer at Ease (1960) 1,503 exemplars
Arrow of God (1964) 1,271 exemplars
Anthills of the Savannah (1987) 1,113 exemplars
A Man of the People (1966) 858 exemplars
Girls at War (1972) 278 exemplars
Home and Exile (2001) 216 exemplars
African Short Stories (1985) — Editor; Col·laborador — 145 exemplars
Chike and the River (1966) 142 exemplars
Africas Tarnished Name (2018) 126 exemplars
Collected Poems (1969) 96 exemplars
How the Leopard Got His Claws (1972) 82 exemplars
The Trouble with Nigeria (1984) 63 exemplars
Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (1992) — Editor — 55 exemplars
Beware Soul Brother (1971) 50 exemplars
OCR GCSE Story Collection (2002) 21 exemplars
The Drum (1977) 13 exemplars
The Flute: A Children's Story (1977) 8 exemplars
Dead Men's Path 4 exemplars
Už nikdy klid 2 exemplars
The world of the Ogbanje (1986) 2 exemplars
Civil Peace 2 exemplars
Things fall apart 1 exemplars
Human Mine Sweeper 1 exemplars

Obres associades

The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Col·laborador — 1,130 exemplars
Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles (2008) — Pròleg — 353 exemplars
Telling Tales (2004) — Col·laborador — 344 exemplars
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1986) — Col·laborador — 339 exemplars
The World's Greatest Short Stories (2006) — Col·laborador — 264 exemplars
Under African Skies: Modern African Stories (1997) — Col·laborador — 92 exemplars
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (2007) — Col·laborador — 75 exemplars
The Anchor Book of Modern African Stories (2002) — Pròleg — 51 exemplars
One World of Literature (1992) — Col·laborador — 24 exemplars
African Literature: an anthology of criticism and theory (2007) — Col·laborador — 23 exemplars
Currents in Fiction (1974) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
AQA Anthology (2002) — Autor, algunes edicions19 exemplars
Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (1980) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
An African Quilt: 24 Modern African Stories (2012) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
African Rhapsody: Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience (1994) — Pròleg, algunes edicions16 exemplars
Masters of British Literature, Volume B (2007) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars

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Nom oficial
Achebe, Albert Chinụalụmọgụ
Data de naixement
1930-11-16
Data de defunció
2013-03-21
Lloc d'enterrament
Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
Nigeria
Lloc de naixement
Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria Protectorate
Lloc de defunció
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Llocs de residència
Ogidi, Nigeria
Nekede, Nigeria
Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria
Oba, Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria
Enugu, Nigeria (mostra-les totes 12)
Aba, Biafra
Nsukku, Nigeria
Nneobi, Nigeria
Annandale, New York, USA
Massachusetts, USA
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Educació
University College, Ibadan, Nigeria
University of London
Professions
broadcaster
professor
novelist
short-story writer
poet
school teacher
Relacions
Okigbo, Christopher (friend)
Organitzacions
Anambra State University of Technology
Bard College
Brown University
Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation
Premis i honors
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
Biografia breu
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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Estadístiques

Obres
53
També de
19
Membres
28,381
Popularitat
#711
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
576
ISBN
412
Llengües
26
Preferit
44

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