Who is Uzodinma Iweala?
Uzodinma Iweala is a writer and medical doctor. His first book, Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (HarperCollins, 2005), tells the story of a child soldier in West Africa. His second book, Our Kind of People: Thoughts on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, will be released in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States in the summer of 2012.
When was Uzodinma Iweala’s first book published?
Uzodinma Iweala during a public reading at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 17, 2008. Uzodinma Iweala (born November 5) is a Nigerian-American author and medical doctor. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work (in creative writing) at Harvard.
Where is Dr Iweala now?
Iweala is currently the CEO of The Africa Center in Harlem, New York. The son of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Iweala attended St. Albans School in Washington D.C. and later Harvard College, from which he graduated with an A.B., magna cum laude, in English and American Literature and Language, in 2004.
What is the theme of the second novel by Iweala?
In his second novel, Iweala explores the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality and the diaspora through the story of Niru, a Nigerian-American high-school senior living in a middle-class suburb of Washington, D.C., who comes out as gay to his white straight friend Meredith.
What is the genre of the book Iweala?
Iweala is a Nigerian-American writer, very young (fresh from Harvard) who has crafted a very fine debut novel about a nameless African country brutalized by a civil war fought in no small part by children. The narrator is one such child-soldier.
What is your review of Iweala’s novel’The Kite Runner’?
Iweala makes it clear that everything is not so black and white in his short novel and makes the reader really think about those less fortunate than them. This novel is gritty, gut wrenching, hard to swallow and thoroughly well written. I’d recommend it to every one.
What makes Iweala’s The Hate U give so special?
Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its innocence.” —Entertainment Weekly (A) More Details…