Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Date personale
Născut	5 ianuarie 1938 (86 de ani) Kamirithu⁠(d), Provincia Centrală, Kenya
Copii	Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ[*][[Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (scriitor kenyan)|​]] Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ[*][[Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ (Kenyan writer (born 1970))|​]]
Cetățenie	Kenya
Ocupație	dramaturg romancier[*]​ eseist cadru didactic universitar[*]​ filozof scriitor
Limbi vorbite	limba engleză Kikikuyu[*][[Kikikuyu (Bantu language in Kenya)|​]]
Limbi	limba engleză Kikikuyu[*][[Kikikuyu (Bantu language in Kenya)|​]]
Patronaj	Universitatea din Nairobi[*]​ Universitatea New York University of California, Irvine[*][[University of California, Irvine (public research university in Irvine, California, United States)|​]] Universitatea Northwestern Universitatea Yale Universitatea New York
Note
Premii	Premio Nonino[*][[Premio Nonino (Italian literary award)|​]] Lotus Prize for Literature[*][[Lotus Prize for Literature (International Literary Award)|​]] Premiul internațional al Cataloniei[*]​ Ehrendoktor der Universität Bayreuth[*][[Ehrendoktor der Universität Bayreuth |​]]
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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
• 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
• 2009 Nominalizare la Man Booker International Prize