| LC control no. | n 85352636 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9387.9.A23 |
| Personal name heading | Abani, Chris |
| Variant(s) | Abani, Christopher |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | England |
| Located | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1966-12-27 |
| Place of birth | Afikpo (Nigeria) |
| Affiliation | Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Program of African Studies Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Department of English University of California, Riverside University of London Imo State University |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Novelists Poets College teachers Political activists Writers University and college faculty members English, Teachers of Literature teachers |
| Found in | Masters of the board, 1985: title page (Christopher Abani) Kalakuta Republic, 2000: title page (Chris Abani) GraceLand, 2004: ECIP title page (Chris Abani) data view (Abani, Christopher; b. Dec. 27, 1966) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed October 11, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Abani, Christopher; Abani, Chris; Christopher Uchechukwu Andrew Abani; poet, political activist, fiction writer, dramatist, educator; born 27 December 1966 in Afikpo, Nigeria; published his first novel, Masters of the Board (1984); arrested because Nigeria's military government claimed that Masters of the Board had provided the blueprint for a failed coup (1985); became a vocal political critic, writing and producing plays for an antidictatorship guerrilla theater group; produced a novel, Sirocco, that was seized by the state on publication (1987); his literary activity resulted in two more periods of imprisonment including at the notorious Kiri Kiri maximum-security prison; forced into exile in Britain (1991); continued his political activism and was closely associated with the black British artistic scene, London; earned MA in gender and cultural studies from the University of London; began composing poems about his experience in prison; fled into exile a second time, settling in Los Angeles (1999); returned to fiction; earned PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of California, Riverside (2006); professor of writing and literature, University of California, Riverside; received the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award (2001), Lannan Literary Fellowship (2003)) Northwestern University (website), Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Department of English, viewed July 21, 2020 (Chris Abani; Board of Trustees Professor of English; Director of Graduate Studies, Litowitz Graduate Program in Creative Writing; B.A. in English, Imo State University, Nigeria; has taught in numerous countries around the world; specialization: creative writing) Program of African Studies (Northwestern), PAS bulletin, June 12, 2020, viewed July 21, 2020 (Chris Abani selected as next PAS director) Wikipedia, July 26, 2023: Chris Abani (Christopher Abani (born 27 December 1966) is a Nigerian-American and Los Angeles-based author; born in Afikpo, Ebonyi State, Nigeria; moved to the United Kingdom in 1991, living there until 1999; then moved to the United States, where he now lives) English Prof. Chris Abani talks about identity and language in his memoir "The Face", in The daily Northwestern, November 1, 2021, viewed July 26, 2023 (Nigerian-American author, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright) <https://dailynorthwestern.com/2021/11/01/campus/english-prof-chris-abani-talks-about-identity-and-language-in-his-memoir-the-face/> |
| Associated language | eng |
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