Uzodinma Iweala
Uzodinma Iweala received the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, all for Beasts of No Nation . He was also 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...See more
Uzodinma Iweala received the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, all for Beasts of No Nation . He was also 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. See less
Uzodinma Iweala's Featured Books
Uzodinma Iweala book reviews
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Speak No Evil
A Tale Of Two Houses
Uzodinma Iweala, the author of this novel, is a highly gifted individual, a Nigerian who grew up in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Harvard and from Columbia Medical School. Iweala enjoys ... Read More
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Beasts of No Nation
Child Soldier Fiction Reads Like Autobiography
This first person child soldier narrative brings to mind the nonfiction "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah. Agu, a boy who seems to be 11 or 12, is the main character. When revolutionaries invade his ... Read More
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Beasts of No Nation
Who's Talking? Who's Listening?
by MissP, Mar 5, 2008
Uzodinma Iweala's first book is thought provoking. No child should be made to fight a war, but many children are. They are toting guns and responsibilities way to heavy for them. A narrative about ... Read More