Description
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. Achebe joined the Biafran Ministry of Information and represented Biafra on various diplomatic and fund-raising missions. He was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and began lecturing widely abroad. For over fifteen years, he was the Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. He was Professor at the David and Marianna Fisher University and Professor of Africana studies at Brown University. Chinua Achebe wrote over twenty books - novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry - and received numerous honours from around the world, including the Honourary Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as honourary doctorates from more than thirty colleges and universities. He was also the recipient of Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement, the Nigerian National Merit Award. In 2007, he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction. He died in 2013.
| EAN: | 9780141186887 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 01.11.2001 |
| Produktform: | Kartoniert |
| Titel der Reihe: | Penguin Modern Classics## |
| Autoren: | Achebe, Chinua |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 176 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Literary |
| Keyword: | heart of darkness; albert camus; buchi emecheta the joys of motherhood; house of hunger; ben okri; a grain of wheat ngugi; ngugi wa thiong'o; the arrow of god; historical fiction; historical; literary fiction; historical fiction books; historical books; historical novels; asia; contemporary fiction; middle east; african |
| Fachschema: | Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Nigerianische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Historischer Roman, Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik |
| Region: | Nigeria |
| Zeitraum: | zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (1850 bis 1899 n. Chr.) |
| Imprint-Titels: | Penguin Classics |
| Verkauf Verboten: | |
| Text Sprache: | eng |
| Originalsprache: | eng |
| Seitenanzahl: | XIII, 151 |
| Verlag: | Penguin Books Ltd (UK) |
| Länge: | 199 mm |
| Breite: | 129 mm |
| Höhe: | 13 mm |
| Gewicht: | 138 gr |
| Genre: | Importe |
| Herkunftsland: | GROSSBRITANNIEN (GB) |