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Chinua Achebe

(Albert Chinualumogu Achebe)
Nigeria (1930 - 2013)

Chinua Achebe, born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe on November 16, 1930, was a Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely-read book in modern African literature.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Children's Fiction

Series

African Trilogy
   1. Things Fall Apart (1958)
   2. No Longer at Ease (1960)
   3. Arrow of God (1964)

Novels

A Man of the People (1966)
Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

Omnibus

Things Fall Apart / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Half of a Yellow Sun (2018) (with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zora Neale Hurston)

Collections

   Girls At War (1972)
   Beware, Soul Brother (poems) (1972)
   Things Fall Apart: and Related Readings (1996)
   Collected Poems (poems) (2004)

Picture Books

How the Leopard Got His Claws (1972) (with John Iroaganachi)
The Flute (1977)

Chapter Books

Chike and the River (1966)

Anthologies edited

   Winds of Change (1977)
   African Short Stories (1987) (with C L Innes)
   The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (1992) (with Lynn Innes)

Non fiction

   Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975)
   The Trouble with Nigeria (1984)
   Hopes and Impediments (1988)
   Beyond Hunger in Africa (1991)
   Critical Fictions (1992)
   Conversations with Chinua Achebe (1997)
   Another Africa (1998) (with Robert Lyons)
   Home and Exile (2000)
   Africa: A Short History (2004)
   The Education of a British Protected Child (2009)
   An Image of Africa / The Trouble With Nigeria (2010)
   Critical Insights: Things Fall Apart (2012)
   There Was A Country (2012)
   Africa's Tarnished Name (2018)

Awards

The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1987) : Anthills of the Savannah

Chinua Achebe recommends

Stealing Indians (2016)
John Smelcer
"A masterpiece."

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