Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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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, näytä lisää 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) näytä vähemmän
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(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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Tekijän teokset
Writers in Politics: A Re-engagement with Issues of Literature and Society (Studies in African Literature) (1981) 29 kappaletta
Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa (Clarendon Lectures in… (1998) 13 kappaletta
Petals of Blood 3 kappaletta
Minutes of glory 2 kappaletta
Nitaolewa nikipenda : mchezo wa kuigiza 2 kappaletta
Usilie Mpenzi Wangu 1 kappale
Mutiiri 1 kappale
Afrika sichtbar machen: Essays über Dekolonisierung und Globalisierung (German Edition) (2021) 1 kappale
නාඩන් දරුව 1 kappale
කුරුසයේ ලූ යක්ෂයා 1 kappale
Nisun jyvä 1 kappale
Nairobi Noir (Akashic Noir) 1 kappale
Mtawa mweusi 1 kappale
Aupaniveshik Mansikta Se Mukti 1 kappale
Chmury i łzy 1 kappale
Njia Panda 1 kappale
Nace un tejedor de sueños (Narración en Castellano): El despertar de un escritor (Ciclogénesis) (2020) 1 kappale
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo of Kenya 1 kappale
Somnis en temps de guerra 1 kappale
Associated Works
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Avustaja — 345 kappaletta
Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America (1992) — Avustaja — 187 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- Thiong'o, Ngugi wa
- Virallinen nimi
- Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa
- Muut nimet
- Ngugi, James Thiong'o (birth name)
wa Thiongo, Ngugi - Syntymäaika
- 1938-01-05
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Kenya
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- Kenya
- Syntymäpaikka
- Kamiriithu, Kenya
- Asuinpaikat
- Kamiriithu, Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya
Irvine, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA - Koulutus
- Makerere University
University of Leeds - Ammatit
- university professor
scholar of African and English literature
writer - Suhteet
- Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (son)
Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ (daughter) - Organisaatiot
- University of California, Irvine
Amherst College
Yale University
New York University - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Lotus Prize for Literature (1973)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 2003)
PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature (2022) - Erotteluhuomautus
- 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, 75 Books Challenge for 2023 (marraskuu 2023)
Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Author Theme Reads (tammikuu 2012)
Matigari by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Author Theme Reads (joulukuu 2011)
Introducing Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Author Theme Reads (joulukuu 2011)
Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Author Theme Reads (joulukuu 2011)
The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Author Theme Reads (joulukuu 2011)
Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Author Theme Reads (marraskuu 2011)
Kirja-arvosteluja
The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o Tekijä: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
3.5, I did like the book and I learned a lot from it but you can tell its the author's first novel. The first half of the novel is a classic coming-of-age tale with a practical realism meeting the magical memory of the Kenyan hilllands. It plays out important issues for Africans under colonialism, dealing very directly with the complex issue of female circumcision. But the second half of the book is too burdened by repetitive exposition, and morality play style allusions for it to really shine, although certainly, the potential is there. The book is worth reading and I look forward to reading other of Thiong'o's works.… (lisätietoja)
First-hand engrossing memoir of life during the years of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya, and the often brutal British colonial responses.
Reasons read: ROOT, ANC,
I received this as part of AudioSync File summer program for young people. This is a work of verse telling the creation myth. It is a blend of folklore, myth, adventure and allegory. It is my first book by this author.
I received this as part of AudioSync File summer program for young people. This is a work of verse telling the creation myth. It is a blend of folklore, myth, adventure and allegory. It is my first book by this author.
This is well known enough on this board that no summary is needed. I will say only that I had the same reaction to this as to the last book of his that I read (The River Between): good, but no more. Although I find his settings and themes of great interest, he just doesn’t engage me. I don’t find the writing particularly moving and the characters—the protagonist(s) as well as the lesser characters—strike me too often as just a step up from stick figures. I will persist and try A Grain of Wheat next since that seems well-regarded here. But I will confess to being disappointed. Again.… (lisätietoja)
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