From: 'Abraham Madu' via AfricanWorldForum <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:46:09 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [africanworldforum] 60 years . Where is Igbo language
translation of this Things Fall Apart?
60 years .Where is Igbo language translation of this Things Fall
Apart?ChinuaAchebe's 'Things Fall Apart' Repackaged And Reissued By
Penguin Books
A repackagededition of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
republishedby the publishing giant, Penguin Books, will soon be
released aspart of activities marking the sixtieth anniversary of the
classic novel nextyear (2018). Penguin Books has equally obtained the
rights to republish all ofthe famous author's work. ThingsFall
Apart,Achebe's first novel, published in 1958, now exists in 57
translations, reportssay. It has equally sold 20 million copies. The
repackagededition comes with a new cover art work produced by the
"distinguished Nigerianartist, Victor Ekpuk" and author photograph by
DonHamerman. ChinuaAchebe who died on March 21, 2013 in Boston,
Massachusetts, United States, atthe age of 82, was widely regarded as
the father of modern Africanliterature and remains, in the opinion of
many scholars, critics andreaders, the best known and most widely read
writer to come out of Africa. On the backcover of the new Penguin
edition, the distinguished Ghanaian philosopher andwriter, Professor
Kwame Anthony Appiah, is quoted as saying: "ThingsFall Apart may well
be Africa's best-loved novel. For so manyreaders around the world, it
is Chinua Achebe who has opened up the magiccasements of African
fiction."
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