Uzodinma Iweala was born in Washington, D.C., to parents from Nigeria.
In 2007, he was named one of Granta magazine’s 20 best young American novelists. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, won the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys prize for best work of literature by a young writer.
He graduated from Harvard University, where he was a Mellon Mays Scholar and received a number of prizes for his writing—including the Eager Prize, the Horman Prize, the Le Baron Briggs Prize, and the Hoopes Prize, awarded for outstanding undergraduate thesis—and is now a medical student at Columbia University.
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