Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017)
Forfatter af The Joys of Motherhood
Om forfatteren
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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Associated Works
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Bidragyder — 159 eksemplarer
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Bidragyder — 82 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Emecheta, Buchi
- Juridisk navn
- Emecheta, Florence Onye Buchi
- Fødselsdato
- 1944-07-21
- Dødsdag
- 2017-01-25
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- Nigeria
- Fødested
- Lagos, Nigeria
- Dødssted
- London, England, UK
- Dødsårsag
- dementia
- Bopæl
- Yaba, Nigeria
London, England, UK
Calabar, Nigeria - Uddannelse
- University of London (sociology)
- Erhverv
- writer
professor - Organisationer
- Ogwugwu Afor Publishing Company
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983)
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