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Author: Chinua Achebe

Also known as: C. Achebe, Chinua Acebe, Chinua Achebe

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Things Fall Apart 4740 copies, 71 reviews
No longer at ease 320 copies, 1 review
Anthills of the Savannah 267 copies, 5 reviews
Arrow of God 238 copies, 3 reviews
A Man of the People 183 copies, 1 review
Home and Exile 49 copies, 1 review
Girls at War 48 copies
Hopes and impediments : selected essays, 1965-1987 40 copies
The African trilogy 38 copies, 1 review
Things Fall Apart: And Related Readings (Literature Connections) 36 copies
African Short Stories 34 copies, 1 review
Things Fall Apart : No Longer At Ease : Anthills of the Savannah (Voices… 12 copies
The trouble with Nigeria 11 copies
Conversations With Chinua Achebe 6 copies
Spark Notes Things Fall Apart 5 copies, 1 review
Collected Poems 5 copies
Beware, soul brother : poems 5 copies
Chike and the River 4 copies
How the Leopard Got His Claws 4 copies, 1 review
Another Africa 4 copies
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Series with books by Chinua Achebe

African Trilogy 4 books by Chinua Achebe: 5,336 total copies

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Canonical name

Achebe, Chinua

Gender

male

Date of birth

1930-11-16

Date of death

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Nationality

Nigeria

Places of residence

Nneobi, Nigeria

Education

University of Ibadan

London University (1953)

Occupations

broadcaster

professor (Anambra State University of Technology)

Organizations

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1982)

Awards and honors

Man Booker International Prize (2007)

visiting professorship (University of Massachussetts-Amherst | University of Connecticut | UCLA)

Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (2002)

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