Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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Over de Auteur
Novelist, playwright, and essayist, Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Kenya on January 5, 1938. He received a B.A. in English from Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda in 1963. He is Kenya's best-known writer and one of East Africa's most outspoken social critics. His first novel, Weep Not, toon meer Child (1964), was a penetrating account of the Mau Mau uprising (a tribal revolt that occurred in colonial Kenya) and was the first English-language novel by an East African. Two subsequent works, The River Between (1965) and A Grain of Wheat (1967), are sensitive novels about the Kikuyu people caught between the old and the new Africa. One of his major concerns has been the lack of reading materials in native African languages. In an attempt to bring literature to African peasants and workers, he wrote and produced the play I Will Marry When I Want (1977) in his native Kikuyu language. The play, which shows the exploitation of Kikuyu workers and peasants, attracted a large audience of poor Kenyans. It also led to Ngugi's arrest and imprisonment. After his release from prison, he went into exile and is currently living in the United States. His other works include Detained (1981); Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986); and Matigari (1987). He received the 2001 Nonino International Prize for Literature. In 2006, Random House published his first new novel in nearly two decades, Wizard of the Crow. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Ontwarringsbericht:
(eng) Ngũgĩ's name is not in the western form of last name, first name, because neither Ngũgĩ nor wa Thiong'o is his "last name" in the sense that is used in the west. He returned to the traditional Gikuyi form of his name, which roughly means Ngũgĩ son of Thiong'o, and is referred to on his own web site as Ngũgĩ.
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Writers in Politics: A Re-engagement with Issues of Literature and Society (Studies in African Literature) (1981) 29 exemplaren
Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa (Clarendon Lectures in… (1998) 13 exemplaren
Petals of Blood 3 exemplaren
Minutes of glory 2 exemplaren
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Usilie Mpenzi Wangu 1 exemplaar
The first Walter Rodney memorial lecture, 1985 1 exemplaar
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Afrika sichtbar machen: Essays über Dekolonisierung und Globalisierung (German Edition) (2021) 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Thiong'o, Ngugi wa
- Officiële naam
- Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Ngugi, James Thiong'o (birth name)
wa Thiongo, Ngugi - Geboortedatum
- 1938-01-05
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Kenya
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Kenya
- Geboorteplaats
- Kamiriithu, Kenya
- Woonplaatsen
- Kamiriithu, Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya
Irvine, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA - Opleiding
- Makerere University
University of Leeds - Beroepen
- university professor
scholar of African and English literature
writer - Relaties
- Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (son)
Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ (daughter) - Organisaties
- University of California, Irvine
Amherst College
Yale University
New York University - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Lotus Prize for Literature (1973)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 2003)
PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature (2022) - Ontwarringsbericht
- Ngũgĩ's name is not in the western form of last name, first name, because neither Ngũgĩ nor wa Thiong'o is his "last name" in the sense that is used in the west. He returned to the traditional Gikuyi form of his name, which roughly means Ngũgĩ son of Thiong'o, and is referred to on his own web site as Ngũgĩ.
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AFRICAN NOVEL CHALLENGE OCTOBER 2023 : NGUGI WA THIONG'O & SCHOLASTIQUE MUKASONGA in 75 Books Challenge for 2023 (november 2023)
Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in Author Theme Reads (januari 2012)
Matigari by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in Author Theme Reads (december 2011)
Introducing Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in Author Theme Reads (december 2011)
Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in Author Theme Reads (december 2011)
The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in Author Theme Reads (december 2011)
Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in Author Theme Reads (november 2011)
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