Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Autor(a) de A Grain of Wheat
About the Author
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, mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Disambiguation Notice:
(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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Séries
Obras de Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Writers in Politics: A Re-engagement with Issues of Literature and Society (Studies in African Literature) (1981) 29 cópias
Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa (Clarendon Lectures in… (1998) 13 cópias
Petals of Blood 3 cópias
Minutes of glory 2 cópias
Usilie Mpenzi Wangu 1 exemplar(es)
නාඩන් දරුව 1 exemplar(es)
කුරුසයේ ලූ යක්ෂයා 1 exemplar(es)
Nisun jyvä 1 exemplar(es)
Mtawa mweusi 1 exemplar(es)
Aupaniveshik Mansikta Se Mukti 1 exemplar(es)
Chmury i łzy 1 exemplar(es)
Njia Panda 1 exemplar(es)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo of Kenya 1 exemplar(es)
Somnis en temps de guerra 1 exemplar(es)
Nairobi Noir (Akashic Noir) 1 exemplar(es)
Nace un tejedor de sueños (Narración en Castellano): El despertar de un escritor (Ciclogénesis) (2020) 1 exemplar(es)
Afrika sichtbar machen: Essays über Dekolonisierung und Globalisierung (German Edition) (2021) 1 exemplar(es)
Mutiiri 1 exemplar(es)
The first Walter Rodney memorial lecture, 1985 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuinte — 345 cópias
Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America (1992) — Contribuinte — 187 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Thiong'o, Ngugi wa
- Nome de batismo
- Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa
- Outros nomes
- Ngugi, James Thiong'o (birth name)
wa Thiongo, Ngugi - Data de nascimento
- 1938-01-05
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Kenya
- País (para mapa)
- Kenya
- Local de nascimento
- Kamiriithu, Kenya
- Locais de residência
- Kamiriithu, Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya
Irvine, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA - Educação
- Makerere University
University of Leeds - Ocupação
- university professor
scholar of African and English literature
writer - Relacionamentos
- Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (son)
Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ (daughter) - Organizações
- University of California, Irvine
Amherst College
Yale University
New York University - Premiações
- Lotus Prize for Literature (1973)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 2003)
PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature (2022) - Aviso de desambiguação
- 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.
Membros
Discussions
AFRICAN NOVEL CHALLENGE OCTOBER 2023 : NGUGI WA THIONG'O & SCHOLASTIQUE MUKASONGA em 75 Books Challenge for 2023 (Novembro 2023)
Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o em Author Theme Reads (Janeiro 2012)
Matigari by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o em Author Theme Reads (Dezembro 2011)
Introducing Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o em Author Theme Reads (Dezembro 2011)
Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o em Author Theme Reads (Dezembro 2011)
The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o em Author Theme Reads (Dezembro 2011)
Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o em Author Theme Reads (Novembro 2011)
Resenhas
Listas
A Novel Cure (1)
1970s (1)
Black Authors (1)
"We" narration (1)
1960s (1)
Revolutions (1)
Big Jubilee List (1)
Reading Globally (2)
Africa (2)
Writers at Risk (1)
Read These Too (1)
1980s (1)
Translingualism (1)
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Estatísticas
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- 71
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- Membros
- 6,266
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- Resenhas
- 125
- ISBNs
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- Favorito
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