Uzodinma Iweala

Uzodinma Iweala (b. November 5, 1982) is an author who hails from Washington, DC and Nigeria. 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. The book, published in 2005, has received considerable critical acclaim from sources like "Time Magazine", "The New York Times", "Entertainment Weekly", "The Times" [cite_web|title=The Times review|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/incomingFeeds/article593746.ece] , and "Rolling Stone". The son of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Iweala attended St. Albans School in Washington D.C. and is a recent graduate of Harvard College. He is currently a medical student at Columbia University [cite_web|title=The Washington Post |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR2007021101147.html] .

In 2007, he was named one as one of "Granta" magazine 's 20 best young American novelists [cite web|title = Granta Best of young American novelists|url=http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Uzodinma-Iweala]

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* [http://www.kwls.org/lit/kwls_blog/2008/07/uzodinma_iweala_2008beasts_of.cfm Podcast: Uzodinma Iweala reading from Beasts of No Nation at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2008.]
* [http://www.kwls.org/lit/kwls_blog/2008/03/podcast_uzodinma_iweala.cfm Podcast: Uzodinma Iweala reads from a nonfiction work-in-progress about people living with HIV/AIDS in northern Nigeria. From the Key West Literary Seminar, 2008.]
* [http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw060824uzodinma_iweala/ Radio interview on Bookworm.]