Monday, February 4, 2019
• Name: Chinua Achebe
• Birth: November 16, 1930, Ogidi, British Nigeria.
• Father: Isaiah Okafo Achebe
• Mate: Janet Annechi Elobagunam.
• Wife / Husband: Cristiana Chinway Okoli.
Early life of Chinua Achebe:
Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart (1958), which is often considered his best, is the most widely read book in modern African literature. He won the Man Booker International Award in 2007.
Achaebe was raised by his parents in Igbo city of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria, and excelled at the school and received a scholarship to study medicine, but his study in the University College (now Ibadan University) Changed in He was fascinated with world religions and traditional African cultures, and started writing stories as a university student.
After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS) and soon moved to the metropolis of Lagos. In the late 1950s, he attracted attention from the world around his novel Things Fall; His later novels include No Longer at Year (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Achebe wrote his novels in English and defended the use of a "English language of colonialism" in African literature.
Achebe was unhappy with the African books written by British writers such as Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) and John Buchan (1875-1940), because they thought that the description of the African people is wrong and insulting. While working for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, he made his first novel Things Fall Apart (1959), the story of a traditional warrior hero, which is not conducive to changing conditions in the early days of British rule.
This book received instant international recognition and became the basis of a drama by Biyi Bandele. Years later, in 1997, the Performance Studios Workshop of Nigeria worked on the production of the play, which was then presented in 1999 in the United States as part of the African Odyssey series of Kennedy Center. The next two novels of Achebe, No Longer for Age (easily) 1960) and Arrow of God (1964) were also set in the past.
Things Fall Upd (1958), Abebe's first novel, concerns the life of traditional Igbo lives during the arrival of missionaries and the colonial government in their homeland. His main character can not accept a new order, even if the old one has already collapsed. In the sequel No.1 of the ease (1960), he depicts a newly appointed civil servant who has recently returned from studying university in England, maintaining the moral values that are right in front of his new obligations and temptations. Is unable to
Chinua Achebe won numerous awards during her career, including the Man Booker International Prize (2007) and Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2010). In addition, he received an honorary degree from more than 30 universities around the world. Chinua Achebe passed away on March 21, 2013 at the age of 82 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Award :
• Dayton Literary Peace Prize (US) (2010)
• Dorothy and Lillian Gishch Award (2010)
• Man Booker International Prize (2007)
• German Bookcallers Peace Prize (2002)
• Campeon Award (US) (1996)
• Booker Prize for Fiction (Shortlist) (1987)
• Lotus Award for Afro-Asian Writers (1975)
• Commonwealth Poetry Award (1974)
• Statesman Jock Campbell Award for Commonwealth Writers (1964)
• Margaret Wong Memorial Award (1959)