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| Chinua AchebeAlso known as: C. Achebe, Chinua Acebe, Chinua Achebe, Achebem Chinua, Chinua Ach3bee | 9,016 | 154 | (3.74) | 0 | 0 |
- Things Fall Apart 6922 copies, 126 reviews
- No Longer at Ease 455 copies, 5 reviews
- Anthills of the Savannah 379 copies, 5 reviews
- Arrow of God 362 copies, 6 reviews
- A Man of the People 275 copies, 1 review
- Things Fall Apart (Norton Critical Edition) 132 copies, 1 review
- Girls at War 72 copies
- Things Fall Apart: And Related Readings 66 copies, 1 review
- Home and Exile 63 copies, 2 reviews
- Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays 61 copies, 1 review
- The African Trilogy 48 copies, 2 reviews
- African Short Stories 47 copies, 1 review
- The Trouble with Nigeria 18 copies
- Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Anthills of the Savannah 14 copies
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Foyles: An evening with Chinua Achebe (October 13 at 18:00) Chinua Achebe. On the 50th anniversary of the publication of his seminal novel Things Fall Apart, he will talk about his life and writing, and will also read extracts from some of his unpublished essays. Tickets £10 (concessions £8).
PEN/Faulkner with The Washington Post Book World presents an evening with Chinua Achebe to commemorate the 50th anniversary publication of his acclaimed novel Things Fall Apart. Free and open to the public. Advanced reservations REQUIRED! E-mail rsvp@penfaulkner.org or call 202-898-9063.
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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 ia a gradate of Universit 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 has published novels, short stories, essays and children's books. [adapted from Things Fall Apart, c1959, 1994 printing Anchor Books Ed.]
Mr. Achebe has received numerous honors from around the world including more than twenty honorary doctorates from universities in England, Scotland, the United States, Canada, and Nigeria.
At present, Mr. Achebe lives with his wife in Annandale, New York, where they both teach at Bard College. They have four children.  | |
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