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Chinua Achebe

(Albert Chinualumogu Achebe)
Nigeria (1930 - 2013)

Chinua Achebe, born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe on November 16, 1930, was a Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely-read book in modern African literature.

Awards: Booker (2007) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Children's Fiction

Series

African Trilogy
   1. Things Fall Apart (1958)
   2. No Longer at Ease (1960)
   3. Arrow of God (1964)

Novels

A Man of the People (1966)
Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

Collections

   Girls At War (1972)
   Beware, Soul Brother (poems) (1972)
   Things Fall Apart: and Related Readings (1996)
   Collected Poems (poems) (2004)

Anthologies edited

   Winds of Change (1977)
   African Short Stories (1987) (with C L Innes)
   The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (1992) (with Lynn Innes)

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Books containing stories by Chinua Achebe

Gods and Soldiers (2009)
The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing
edited by
Rob Spillman

Rotten English (2007)
A Literary Anthology
edited by
Dohra Ahmad

Twentieth Anniversary Issue (2001)
(Conjunctions, book 37)
edited by
Bradford Morrow

Awards

2007 International Booker Prize (pre 2016)

Award nominations

1987 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Anthills of the Savannah

Chinua Achebe recommends

Black and Female (2022)
Tsitsi Dangarembga
"As natural as the grass grows."

Stealing Indians (2016)
John Smelcer
"A masterpiece."

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