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Uzodinma Iweala during a public reading at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 17, 2008. Uzodinma Iweala // ⓘ (born November 5) is a Nigerian-American author and medical doctor. [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.
Beasts of No Nation is a 2005 novel by the Nigerian -American author Uzodinma Iweala, [1] [2] that takes its title from Fela Kuti 's 1989 album of the same name. [3] The book won the 2005 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction [4] and the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. [5] [6] It was adapted as a movie in 2015.
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Nov 5, 1982 · The United States. Uzodinma Iweala is a writer and medical doctor. His first book, Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (HarperCollins, 2005), tells the story of a child soldier in West Africa. His second book, Our Kind of People: Thoughts on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, will be released in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States in the summer of 2012.
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Mar 15, 2018 · SPEAK NO EVIL By Uzodinma Iweala 215 pp. HarperCollins Publishers. $26.99. “The American dream” is an apt phrase, because dreams are illogical. The immigrant lives at a remove from the land of ...
Publication date. 2018. Speak No Evil is a 2018 novel by Nigerian American writer Uzodinma Iweala. [1] [2] In his second novel, Iweala explores the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality and the diaspora through the story of Niru, a Nigerian-American high-school senior living in a middle-class suburb of Washington, D.C ...
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Mar 5, 2018 · Uzodinma Iweala’s second novel, “Speak No Evil,” is about what happens when the wealthy and conservative parents of a track star headed to Harvard find out he’s gay.