Join us on March 24, at noon, for lunch with Uzodinma Iweala. RSVP by writing wh@writing.upenn.edu or by calling 215-746-POEM.
Uzodinma Iweala is a writer and medical doctor. His first
book,
Beasts of No Nation (HarperCollins, 2005), tells the
story of a child soldier in West Africa.
Beasts of No Nation won
numerous awards, including the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
from Booktrust, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. His second book,
Our Kind of People: Thoughts on
HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, was released in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United
States in the summer of 2012. He has also published numerous short stories and essays and
has worked in international development on matters of health policy. Mr. Iweala is
currently working on a novel titled
Speak No Evil—a
series of interlinked narratives set in Washington, DC—that explores the themes of
choice, freedom, and what we must compromise to live in a secure society. The book
follows six different characters as they interact with one another and the city in
which they live.
