Brian Chikwava
| ụdịekere | nwoke  |
|---|---|
| mba o sị | Zimbabwe |
| aha enyere | Brian |
| ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya | 20. century |
| asụsụ ọ na-asụ, na-ede ma ọ bụ were na-ebinye aka | Bekee |
| ọrụ ọ na-arụ | odee akwụkwọ, onye egwu |
| ụdị ọrụ ya | music |
| ebe agụmakwụkwọ | University of Bristol |
| Ihe nrite | Caine Prize |
Brian Chikwava bụ onye odee na onye egwu mba Zimbabwe . Akwụkwọ akụkọ ya dị mkpirikpi "Seventh Street Alchemy" e nyere ya n'afọ 2004 Caine Prize maka ide Afrika na Bekee; Chikwava ghọrọ onye Zimbabwe mbụ mere ya. [1] Ọ bụbu onye Charles Pick ibe na Mahadum East Anglia, ma biri na London. Ọ gara n'ihu na-ede na England ma wepụta abọ egwu akpọrọ Jacaranda Skits . [2]
ndabere
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]A mụrụ Brian Chikwava na Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe 'afọ 1971. Ọ gara ụlọ akwụkwọ na-ebi ebi dị na Bulawayo, na-aga n'ihu na-amụ engineering Civil na Bristol University . [3]afọ 2004. [4]
Chikwava nwetara ihe nrite Caine nke ise maka ide ihe n'Afrika n'afọ 2004 site na obere akụkọ ya "Seventh Street Alchemy" (nke e bipụtara na Writing Still, Weaver Press, Harare ṅ'afọ 2003), [5] onye Zimbabwe mbụ nwetara ihe nrite ahụ. [6] N'ịme ihe nrite ahụ, onye isi oche ndị ọka ikpe, Alvaro Ribeiro, kọwara akụkọ ahụ dị ka: "Akụkọ siri ike nke Brian Chikwava nke Zimbabwe na-ekwu na asụsụ Bekee bụ nke ya, na Bekee nwere àgwà Afrịka. . . . Mmeri maka ọdịnala ogologo nke Zimbabwe na-ede n'ihu ọdịnihu Zimbabwe na-ejighị n'aka!" [5]
E bipụtara akwụkwọ akụkọ mbụ ya bụ Harare North n'afọ 2009 site na Jonathan Cape .[7] Nnyocha dị mma n'ozuzu ya, na Mary Fitzgerald nke New Statesman na-ede na "n'ime ka nsogbu nke ndị a na-emekarị ka ha dị ndụ, [Chikwava] emeghewo ọnọdụ na-adịghị mma, ma dị mkpa ngwa ngwa, nke mmekọrịta mmadụ na ibe ya".[8] Ọ na-eto "amamihe na aro" ya, ihe Tod Wodicka, onye dere All Shall Be Well, kwenyere na ya, na-ede na "akwụkwọ site na peeji, ahịrị site na ahịrị, [Chikwava] emeela olu akụkọ zuru oke na nke ziri ezi... jupụtara na ihe ijuanya, obere ihe na-atọ ụtọ, na ezigbo ọkụ-n'afọ... mana nke kachasị mkpa, olu ahụ na-apụta dị ka ihe na-enweghị mgbalị, ya mere eziokwu... ọ bụ nnukwu ihe rụzuru.
Trevor Lewis nke The Sunday Times dere na "Chikwava emeela ka onye na-eme ihe nkiri na-adọrọ adọrọ, onye Bekee na okwu ya na-agbagọ agbagọ na-eme ka ihe dị egwu, ihe na-atọ ọchị", ebe Margaret Busby dere na The Independent: "Chikwavа nwere nkà ịchọta ìhè na ihe ọchị n'ime obi nkoropụ kachasị njọ, na-adọta ọchị ọbụna site na mwute... mgbe ụfọdụ n'etiti ndị edemede otu na-abịa gafee olu pụrụ iche... nke na ọ na-ejide n'ụzọ a na-agaghị echefu echefu.[9] N' uche m, Chikwava yiri ka ọ ga-anọ n'ụdị ahụ. Site na peeji mbụ ruo na nke ikpeazụ, akụkọ obodo nke Harare North na-ejide, na-enye nsogbu, na-akpali akpali, na-atọ ọchị. "[10]
N'ikwu okwu banyere Zimbabwe na nnabata ọ kwenyere na akwụkwọ ya ga-enweta, Chikwava kwuru: "Zimbabwe m maara na ọ dịghịzi adị. A ga-ebipụta akwụkwọ ahụ ebe ahụ mana ọ nweghị onye ga-azụta ya. Ọ dịghị onye na-azụrụ akwụkwọ ugbu a. Ha abụghịzi ihe mbụ." [3]
O sokwa na mmemme Bush Theater 's nke afó 2011 Akwụkwọ iri isii na isii nke o ji dee ibe ya dabere n'akwụkwọ King James Bible
Edensibia
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- ↑ Previous winners, Caine Prize website.
- ↑ The Literator, Caine Prize for African Writing, The Independent, 22 July 2004.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Olivia Laing, "'The book will be published in Zimbabwe ... no one will buy it': The novelist: Brian Chikwava", The Observer, 4 January 2009.
- ↑ Jean-Pierre Orban, "The long trek of Pidgin English in the Western publishing world", Africultures, 31 March 2010.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "2004 Caine Prize Winner Announced", Bellagio Publishing Network, 19 July 2004.
- ↑ Lovemore Ranga Mataire, "Celebrating Chikwava's literary prowess", The Herald, 6 June 2016.
- ↑ Harare North page at Penguin Random House.
- ↑ Mary Fitzgerald, "Bright Lights, Big City", New Statesman, 26 March 2009.
- ↑ The Times review
- ↑ Margaret Busby, "Harare North, By Brian Chikwava — Scams, scrapes and survival in a city of refugees", The Independent, 23 April 2009.