Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017)
Autore di The Joys of Motherhood
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Buchi Emecheta was born in Lagos, Nigeria on July 21, 1944. She emigrated to London, England in 1960. She received a sociology degree at the University of London. She worked as a social worker for a number of years and contributed a column to the New Statesman about black British life. She wrote 20 mostra altro novels during her lifetime including The Joys of Motherhood, The Rape of Shavi, Second Class Citizen, Into the Ditch, The Bride Price, and The New Tribe. Her first play, A Kind of Marriage, was screened on BBC TV in 1976 and was adapted into a novel in 1986. Her autobiography was entitled Head Above Water. In 2005, she was made an OBE for services to literature. She died on January 25, 2017 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Buchi Emecheta
Opere correlate
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Collaboratore — 159 copie
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Collaboratore — 82 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Emecheta, Buchi
- Nome legale
- Emecheta, Florence Onye Buchi
- Data di nascita
- 1944-07-21
- Data di morte
- 2017-01-25
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Nigeria
- Luogo di nascita
- Lagos, Nigeria
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- dementia
- Luogo di residenza
- Yaba, Nigeria
London, England, UK
Calabar, Nigeria - Istruzione
- University of London (sociology)
- Attività lavorative
- writer
professor - Organizzazioni
- Ogwugwu Afor Publishing Company
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983)
OBE
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Recensioni
Liste
AP Lit (1)
Read These Too (1)
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- Opere
- 24
- Opere correlate
- 9
- Utenti
- 2,389
- Popolarità
- #10,743
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 52
- ISBN
- 179
- Lingue
- 13
- Preferito da
- 5