Uzodinma Iweala, son of Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance and Harvard alumni, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a renowned author, sociologist and physician. His best-selling novel, Beasts Of No Nation has been critically acclaimed and has been made into a block-buster movie. Here’s are a few things you need to know about him:
1. He was born November 5, 1982 and he is 32 years of age.
2. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country.
3. The book, published in 2005, has received considerable critical acclaim from sources like Time Magazine, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Times,and Rolling Stone.
4. He attended St. Albans School in Washington D.C. and then proceeded to Harvard College at Harvard University earning an A.B., magna cum laude, in English and American Literature and Language in 2004.
5. During his time at Harvard, Iweala earned the Hoopes Prize and Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, 2004; Eager Prize for Best Undergraduate Short Story, 2003; and the Horman Prize for Excellence in Creative Writing, 2003.
6. He is a graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, class of 2011. He is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
7. He won the New York Public Library’s 2006 Young Lions Fiction Award. In 2007, he was named as one of Granta magazine’s 20 best young American novelists.
8. Hollywood hotshot, Idris Elba starred as a major character in the film adaptation of Beasts Of No Nation done by Netflix.
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