I. N. C. Aniebo

Ifeanyichukwu Ndubuisi Chikezie Aniebo, commonly known as I. N. C. Aniebo (born 31 March 1939), is a Nigerian novelist and short story writer,[1] who has been called "the master craftsman of the Nigerian short story".[2]

Aniebo trained as an artillery officer; his first stories were written under a pseudonym to avoid censorship. He fought for Biafra in the Nigerian Civil War, and The Anonymity of Sacrifice (1974) gives a sense of the horrors and personal conflicts of that war. Aniebo subsequently studied at the University of California, Los Angeles,[1] before returning to Nigeria in 1979 to teach Creative Writing and Literature at the English Department of the University of Port Harcourt.[3]

Works

Novels
Short story collections
Individual short stories

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Simon Gikandi, "Aniebo, I. N. C.", in Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge; 2002. ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3. Reprinted online here
  2. Willfried Feuser, introduction to Jazz and Palm Wine, quoted in "Celebrating I.N.C. Aniebo At 70", Daily Independent (Lagos), 25 March 2009.
  3. "Celebrating I.N.C. Aniebo At 70", Daily Independent (Lagos), 25 March 2009.

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