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The list of Igbo literary authors with works written in Igbo includes both established and emerging male and female writers: Anthony Uchenna Ubesie (22 February 1950 — 11 February 1994) was an Igbo-language novelist, poet, playwright. Ubesie published series of novels from 1973 till his death.
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The first short novel in Igbo was written by Pita (Peter) Nwana in 1933 (Omenuko, 1935). It is a historical narrative about a poor boy who rises to become a wealthy trader and paramount chief, but sells his apprentices as slaves to compensate himself for losses of goods suffered, and still becomes impoverished. [ 58 ]
It was one of the first novels to be written in any African language. Fagunwa wrote other works based on similar themes, and remains the most widely read Yorùbá-language author. Amos Tutuola (1920–1997) was greatly inspired by Fagunwa, but wrote in an intentionally rambling, broken English, reflecting the oral tradition of Nigerian Pidgin ...
Erasure: A Novel. If you haven't watch the film adaptation of Percival Everett's book Erasure, add American Fiction to your list of must-see movies after finishing the novel.The page-turning ...
His novel Drummer Boy (1960), based on the life of Benjamin 'Kokoro' Aderounmu was a perceptive and powerful description of the wandering, homeless and poverty-stricken life of a street artist. [6] His most successful novel was Jagua Nana (1961), [ 7 ] about a Pidgin -speaking Nigerian woman who leaves her husband to work as a prostitute in a ...