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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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Things Fall Apart : No Longer At Ease : Anthills of the Savannah (Voices of the African Diaspora) (1987) 27 Exemplare
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Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America (1992) — Mitwirkender — 187 Exemplare
African Rhapsody: Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience (1994) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 16 Exemplare
Cry Sorrow, Cry Joy! Selections from Contemporary African Writers (1971) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
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- Achebe, Albert Chinụalụmọgụ
- Geburtstag
- 1930-11-16
- Todestag
- 2013-03-21
- Begräbnisort
- Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Nigeria
- Land (für Karte)
- Nigeria
- Geburtsort
- Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria Protectorate
- Sterbeort
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Wohnorte
- Ogidi, Nigeria
- Ausbildung
- University College, Ibadan, Nigeria
University of London - Berufe
- broadcaster
professor
novelist
short-story writer
poet
school teacher - Beziehungen
- Okigbo, Christopher (friend)
- Organisationen
- Anambra State University of Technology
Bard College
Brown University
Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels (2002)
Man Booker International Prize (2007) - Kurzbiographie
- 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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