Uzodinma Iweala
Uzodinma Iweala (born November 5, 1982) is an author and physician who hails from Nigeria.[1] His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work (in creative writing) at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country. The book, published in 2005 and adapted as an award-winning film in 2015, was mentioned by Time Magazine, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Times,[2] and Rolling Stone.
Family and education
The son of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Iweala attended St. Albans School in Washington D.C. and later Harvard College with an A.B., magna cum laude, in English and American Literature and Language, in 2004.[3] While at Harvard, Iweala earned the Hoopes Prize and Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, 2004; Eager Prize for Best Undergraduate Short Story, 2003; and the Horman Prize for Excellence in Creative Writing, 2003.[3] He graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2011[4] and is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.[5]
Writing awards
In 2006, he won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. In 2007, he was named as one of Granta magazine's 20 best young American novelists.[6]
References
- ↑ https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/uzodinma-iweala
- ↑ "The Times review". London.
- 1 2 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?cid=1458920
- ↑ Franklin, Marcus (February 11, 2007). "Young Author Iweala Set for Med School". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
- ↑ "Fellow: Uzodinma Iweala", Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
- ↑ "Granta Best of young American novelists".
External links
- Audio: Uzodinma Iweala reading from Beasts of No Nation at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2008.
- Audio: Iweala reads from work-in-progress about people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. From Key West Literary Seminar, 2008.
- Radio interview on Bookworm.
- Andrea Sachs, "Galley Girl Catches Up With Uzodinma Iweala" (interview), Time magazine, November 29, 2005.
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