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Beasts of No Nation is a 2005 novel by the Nigerian-American author Uzodinma Iweala, that takes its title from Fela Kuti's 1989 album of the same name. The book won the 2005 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction [4] and the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award .
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Jan 1, 2005 · 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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Beasts of No Nation is the impressive, powerful debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala. Originally written as Iweala's senior thesis at Harvard, it became a literary sensation almost immediately after its publication in 2005.
Nov 8, 2005 · In a powerful, strikingly original voice, Uzodinma Iweala leads the reader through the random travels, betrayals, and violence that mark Agu’s new community. Electrifying and engrossing, Beasts of No Nation announces the arrival of an extraordinary new writer. Read more. Print length. 142 pages.
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Oct 16, 2015 · The book, Beasts of No Nation, was the debut novel – undergraduate thesis work – of Uzodinma Iweala, Editor-in-Chief of Ventures Africa. It was written a little over 10 years ago, and published in 2005 to critical acclaims.
…Nigerian American Uzodinma Iweala’s novel Beasts of No Nation into French. He also penned a tribute to American writer James Baldwin, Lettre à Jimmy (2007), and wrote two memoirs, Demain j’aurai vingt ans (2010; Tomorrow I’ll Be Twenty, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize), written in the voice of… Read More
Sep 3, 2005 · by Uzodinma Iweala. 184pp, John Murray, £12.99. Earlier this year Granta published Delia Jarrett-Macauley's first novel, Moses, Citizen and Me, the considered and multi-layered story of a Sierra ...
