Friday, September 25, 2015

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: : Iweala's Beast of No Nation on Netflix [Former Nigerian Minister's Son's Book Enters Limelight With Author Biography and Well Wisher Congraulations in Relation to Nigerian Politics]




Uzodinma Iweala

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Uzodinma Iweala during a public reading at the Frankfurt Book Fair on 10/17/2008

Uzodinma Iweala (born November 5, 1982) is an author, sociologist and physician who hails from Nigeria. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country. The book, published in 2005, has received considerable critical acclaim from sources like Time Magazine, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Times,[1] and Rolling Stone.

The son of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Iweala attended St. Albans School in Washington D.C. and also attended Harvard College at Harvard University earning an A.B., magna cum laude, in English and American Literature and Language in 2004.[2] While at Harvard, Iweala earned the Hoopes Prize and Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, 2004; Eager Prize for Best Undergraduate Short Story, 2003; and the Horman Prize for Excellence in Creative Writing, 2003.[2] He is a graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, class of 2011.[3] He is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.[4]

He won the New York Public Library's 2006 Young Lions Fiction Award. In 2007, he was named as one of Granta magazine's 20 best young American novelists.[5]

References

  1. "The Times review". London.[dead link]
  2. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?cid=1458920
  3. Franklin, Marcus (February 11, 2007). "Young Author Iweala Set for Med School". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
  4. "Fellow: Uzodinma Iweala", Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
  5. "Granta Best of young American novelists".

External links







Congratulations to my son, Uzodinma Iweala, whose award winning book, Beasts of No Nation, was made into an award winning movie set to hit theaters and netflix on October 16 2015.

Watch the trailer https://youtu.be/2xb9Ty-1frw.

Read the review: http://www.economist.com/…/pr…/2015/09/film-beasts-no-nation



On 25 September 2015 at 17:39, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <toyinkaidara@gmail.com> wrote:




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Date: 25 September 2015 at 13:57
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Congratulations to my son, Uzodinma Iweala, whose award winning book, Beasts of No Nation, was made into an award winning movie set to hit theaters and netflix on October 16 2015.

Watch the trailerhttps://youtu.be/2xb9Ty-1frw.

Read the review:http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2015/09/film-beasts-no-nation


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From: Joe Attueyi topcrestt@yahoo.com [NIgerianWorldForum] <NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, 25 September 2015 13:31
Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] Iweala's Beast of No Nation on Netflix

 

Whatsoever a man sows that shall he reap. This woman and her family go kill some people with high BP o! Hehehehe 



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