Chinua Achebe
Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages & Literature

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Africana Studies, Literature

Biography:
B.A., University of London. Nigerian-born novelist and poet; works include Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966), Beware Soul Brother (1972), The Trouble with Nigeria (1984), Anthills of the Savannah (1987), Another Africa, with R. Lyons (1998), Africa Is People (1998), Home and Exile (2000). Awards and prizes include Commonwealth Poetry Prize (1974), Afro-Asian Writers Association’s Lotus Award (1975), Campion Medal (1996), German Booksellers Peace Prize (2002), Man Booker International Prize (2007). Fellow, Royal Society of Literature, London (1981); honorary foreign fellow, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1983); honorary fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002). Honorary doctorates from more than 30 colleges and universities. McMillan-Stewart Lecturer, Harvard University (1998); Presidential Fellow Lecturer, World Bank (1998). (1990–2009) Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature.