Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (n. 5 ianuarie 1938 , Kamirithu (d ) , Provincia Centrală , Kenya ) este un scriitor kenyan .
Opera
The Black Hermit , 1963 (piesă de teatru)
Weep Not, Child , 1964, Heinemann 1987, Macmillan 2005, ISBN 1-4050-7331-4
The River Between , Heinemann 1965, Heinemann 1989, ISBN 0-435-90548-1
A Grain of Wheat , 1967 (1992) ISBN 0-14-118699-2
This Time Tomorrow (trei piese de teatru), c. 1970
Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics , Heinemann 1972, ISBN 0-435-18580-2
A Meeting in the Dark (1974)
Secret Lives, and Other Stories , 1976, Heinemann 1992 ISBN 0-435-90975-4
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (play), 1976, ISBN 0-435-90191-5 , African Publishing Group, ISBN 0-949932-45-0 (cu Micere Githae Mugo and Njaka)
Ngaahika Ndeenda: Ithaako ria ngerekano (I Will Marry When I Want) , 1977 (piesă de teatru; cu Ngugi wa Mirii), Heinemann Educational Books (1980)
Petals of Blood , (1977) Penguin 2002, ISBN 0-14-118702-6
Caitaani mutharaba-Ini (Devil on the Cross ), 1980
Writers in Politics: Essays , 1981 ISBN 978-0-85255-541-5 (UK) ISBN 978-0-435-08985-6 (US)
Education for a National Culture , 1981
Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary , 1981
Devil on the Cross (English translation of Caitaani mutharaba-Ini ), Heinemann, 1982, ISBN 0-435-90200-8
Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya , 1983
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature , 1986 ISBN 978-0-85255-501-9 (UK) ISBN 978-0-435-08016-7 (US)
Mother, Sing For Me , 1986
Writing against Neo-Colonialism , 1986
Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus (Njamba Nene na Mbaathi i Mathagu ), 1986 (literatură pentru copii)
Matigari ma Njiruungi , 1986
Njamba Nene and the Cruel Chief (Njamba Nene na Chibu King'ang'i ), 1988 (literatură pentru copii)
Matigari , (translated into English by Wangui wa Goro), Heinemann 1989, Africa World Press 1994, ISBN 0-435-90546-5
Njamba Nene's Pistol (Bathitoora ya Njamba Nene ), (children's book), 1990, Africa World Press, ISBN 0-86543-081-0
Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom , Heinemann, 1993, ISBN 978-0-435-08079-2 (US) ISBN 978-0-85255-530-9 (UK)
Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: The Performance of Literature and Power in Post-Colonial Africa , (The Clarendon Lectures in English Literature 1996), Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-818390-9
Mũrogi wa Kagogo (Wizard of the Crow), 2004, East African Educational Publishers, ISBN 9966-25-162-6
Wizard of the Crow , 2006, Secker, ISBN 1-84655-034-3
Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance , Basic Civitas Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-465-00946-6 [ 9]
Dreams in a Time of War: a Childhood Memoir , Harvill Secker, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84655-377-6
Premii și distincții
1967 Premiul Jomo Kenyatta (premiul de stat kenyan pentru literatură)
1973 Lotus Prize for Literature[ 10]
2009 Nominalizare la Man Booker International Prize[necesită citare ]
Note
^ https://www.calendar.auckland.ac.nz/en/university-personnel/honorary-graduates.html
^ Ngugi wa Thiong'o , Encyclopædia Britannica Online , accesat în 9 octombrie 2017
^ Ngugi wa Thiong'o , Babelio
^ The Fine Art Archive , accesat în 1 aprilie 2021
^ Ngugi wa Thiong'o , Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
^ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o , Internet Speculative Fiction Database, accesat în 9 octombrie 2017
^ „Ngugi wa Thiong'o” , Freebase Data Dumps [*]
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^ Daily Nation , Lifestyle Magazine, 13 June 2009: Queries over Ngugi’s appeal to save African languages, culture
^ Rollyson, Carl Edmund; Magill, Frank Northen (iunie 2003). Critical Survey of Drama: Jane Martin - Lennox Robinson . Salem Press. p. 2466. ISBN 978-1-58765-107-6 . Accesat în 25 noiembrie 2011 .