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*[http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/uzodinma_iweala_2008beasts_of/ Audio: Uzodinma Iweala reading from ''Beasts of No Nation'' at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2008.] |
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*[http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/podcast_uzodinma_iweala/ Audio: Iweala reads from work-in-progress about people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. From Key West Literary Seminar, 2008.] |
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*[http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw060824uzodinma_iweala/ Radio interview on Bookworm.] |
*[http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw060824uzodinma_iweala/ Radio interview on Bookworm.] |
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Revision as of 15:40, 21 March 2011
Uzodinma Iweala (born November 5, 1982) is an author who hails from Washington, DC and Nigeria. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country. The book, published in 2005, has received considerable critical acclaim from sources like Time Magazine, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Times,[1] and Rolling Stone.
The son of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Iweala attended St. Albans School in Washington D.C. and also attended Harvard College at Harvard University earning an A.B., magna cum laude, in English and American Literature and Language in 2004.[2] 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 is currently a medical student at Columbia University, class of 2011.[4]
He won the New York Public Library's 2006 Young Lions Fiction Award. In 2007, he was named as one of Granta magazine's 20 best young American novelists.[5]
References
- ^ "The Times review". London. [dead link]
- ^ http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?cid=1458920
- ^ http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?cid=1458920
- ^ Franklin, Marcus (February 11, 2007). "The Washington Post". Retrieved May 27, 2010.
- ^ "Granta Best of young American novelists".