| LC control no. | n 79064863 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9387.9.A3 |
| Personal name heading | Achebe, Chinua |
| Variant(s) | Achebe, Albert Chinua Achebe, Chinualumogu Albert Ats'ebeh, Ts'inuʼa Acībī, Cinūā Achebe, Albert Chinualumogu אצ׳בה, צ׳ינוא أتشينى، شينوا |
| Associated country | Nigeria |
| Birth date | 1930-11-16 |
| Death date | 2013-03-22 |
| Place of birth | Ogidi (Anambra State, Nigeria) |
| Place of death | Boston (Mass.) |
| Affiliation | Brown University Bard College University College (Ibadan, Nigeria) Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation Voice of Nigeria University of Nigeria, Nsukka British Broadcasting Corporation |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Poets College teachers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | His Things fall apart, 1959. Kiiru, M. A study guide to Chinua Achebe's novel Things fall apart, 1978: title page (Chinua Achebe) page 3 (Chinualumogu Albert Achebe; Nigerian author) Mapolet be-umuʼofyah, 1965: title page (Ts'inuʼa Ats'ebeh) Basatīwāda ate ilākāī wakhareweṃ, 2005: title page (Cinūā Acībī) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1930) Guardian (online), viewed Mar. 22, 2013 (Chinua Achebe; b. 1930, Ogidi, Nigeria; d. this morning [Mar. 22, 2013], Boston, aged 82; Nigerian novelist seen by millions as the father of African literature) Gale biography in context, viewed Mar. 22, 2013 (Chinua Achebe; b. Nov. 16, 1930, Ogidi, Anambra, Eastern Nigeria; novelist) New York times (online), viewed Mar. 22, 2013 (Chinua Achebe; b. Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, Nov. 16, 1930, Ogidi; d. Friday [Mar. 22, 2013], aged 82) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 28, 2014: (Chinua Achebe; born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe; fiction writer, educator, magazine and journal editor / publisher, book editor / publisher; born 15 November 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria; born to an Igbo family active in the Christian church; studied at the Government College in Umuahia; BA degree from University College of Ibadan (now University of Ibadan), worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, ultimately acting as director of the radio program Voice of Nigeria in Lagos; 1957 attended the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) staff school in London; after the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970) taught literature at the University of Nigeria at Nsukka; in the 1970s taught at several American universities; in 2008 served as Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College, New York; awarded the Man Booker International Prize for his contribution to world literature (2007); died 21 March 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States) |
| Associated language | eng ibo |
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