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Chinua Achebe

(Albert Chinualumogu Achebe)
Nigeria (1930 - )

About Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe, born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe on November 16, 1930, is 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.

New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

The Education of a British Protected Child

The African Trilogy
(African Trilogy)

Series

African Trilogy
1. Things Fall Apart (1958)
2. No Longer at Ease (1960)
3. Arrow of God (1964)
The African Trilogy (omnibus) (1988)

Anthologies edited

Winds of Change: Modern Short Stories from Black Africa (1977)
African Short Stories (1985) (with C L Innes)
The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (1992) (with Lynn Innes)

Non fiction

Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975)
Hopes and Impediments: Essays (1990)
Beyond Hunger in Africa: Conventional Wisdom And a Vision of Africa in 2057 (1991)
Critical Fictions: The Politics of Imaginative Writing (1992)
Conversations with Chinua Achebe (1997)
Another Africa (1997) (with Robert Lyons)
Africa: A Short History (2004)
The Education of a British Protected Child (2009)

Awards

The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1987) : Anthills of the Savannah

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