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Uzodinma Iweala
Uzodinma Iweala is the acclaimed author of Beasts of No Nation, which received the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Public Library Young Lions 2006 Fiction Award, and the 2006 John... show more
Uzodinma Iweala is the acclaimed author of Beasts of No Nation, which received the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Public Library Young Lions 2006 Fiction Award, and the 2006 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2007, Iweala was selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. A graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, he lives in New York City and Lagos, Nigeria.
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Birth date: November 05, 1982
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"So it goes."
"So it goes." rated it 7 years ago
There is so much emotion and so many important themes packed into SPEAK NO EVIL, it's impossible to properly cover everything Uzodinma Iweala touches upon. Any one of the themes could be a full novel, so when we leap into this book, it's a bit like leaping into a boiling pot of water. That felt unco...
Misericordia
Misericordia rated it 9 years ago
Horrible. Not the book, but the situation of child soldiers, of any soldiers. God bless their lifes and souls.
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud rated it 11 years ago
I gave my review a serious titivation and posted it to my blog...but if you've never read this book, go straight to the bookstore and buy it. http://tinyurl.com/kncknpy Stories like this are too true to tell in non-fiction. Stories like this are too hard to read when they're merely factual. But ...
Sharon E. Cathcart
Sharon E. Cathcart rated it 12 years ago
The challenge with writing a medical ethnography is providing the right balance of statistical information and anecdotes/interviews that help put a face on the subject disease. Nigerian physician Uzodinma Iweala does just that with this book."Our Kind of People" examines the sub-Saharan Africa HIV/...
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud rated it 15 years ago
Men writing in the voice of a child are at a disadvantage because childhood is traditionally thought of as a woman's preserve. Iweala writes about a boy who is only nominally a child, though; one of the thousands of boys who are compelled to serve in the civil wars and rebellions of Africa's trouble...
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