Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017)
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Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Emecheta, Buchi
- Nombre legal
- Emecheta, Florence Onye Buchi
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1944-07-21
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2017-01-25
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Nigeria
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Lagos, Nigeria
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Causa de fallecimiento
- dementia
- Lugares de residencia
- Yaba, Nigeria
London, England, UK
Calabar, Nigeria - Educación
- University of London (sociology)
- Ocupaciones
- writer
professor - Organizaciones
- Ogwugwu Afor Publishing Company
- Premios y honores
- Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983)
OBE
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