Uche Nduka

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Uche Nduka (born 14 October 1963)is a Nigerian poet, writer, lecturer and songwriter who was awarded the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Poetry in 1997. He currently lives in New York.

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[edit] Life

Uche Nduka was born on 14th of October 1963 in Umuahia ,Nigeria. He earned a B.A Combined Honours degree in English from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1985. He has worked as the first Executive Secretary of the Association of Nigerian Authors (1987-1989), National Publicity secretary of ANA(1992-1995), and Lecturer in African Literature at the University of Bremen (1995-2000). He has lived in Holland, Germany and the USA.

[edit] Career

Nduka's volumes of poetry are Flower Child (1988), Second Act (1994), The Bremen Poems (1995), Chiaroscuro (1997) (winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize), If Only the Night (2002), Heart’s Field (2005) and eel on reef (2007). Nduka has also published Belltime Letters (2000), a book of commentaries and whimsical meditations in prose.[1] His work has been translated into German and Dutch.[2]

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Poetry, Main Collections

  • 1988: Flower Child, Update Communications Ltd.
  • 1994: Second Act
  • 1995: The Bremen Poems, New Leaf Press
  • 1997: Chiaroscuro, New Leaf Press

[edit] References

  1. ^ African Writing Online; Poetry; Uche Nduka, Poems
  2. ^ Counterfactual

[edit] External links

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