A presentation on Chinua Achebe, W.W.E. Ross & Patrick White, done at St. Joseph's College, Trichy

3.  Birth: 16 November, 1930
 Place: Ogidi, East Nigeria
 Father: Isaiah Achebe, a Church Missionary
Society catechist.
 Secondary Education from University
College, Unuahia and then Ibadan.
 Published four stories in the University
Herald.

4.  Work for the Nigerian Broadcasting
Corporation as a producer of radio ‘talks’
 1956- went to London for a course at the
British Broadcasting Corporation
 1958 – Things Fall Apart – published
 Okonkwo – protagonist of the novel.
 Set in the fictional town of Umuofia

5.  Published in 1960, the year of Nigerian
Independence from Britain
 The story of Obi Okonkwo – Okonkwo’s
grandson
 Obi – educated in Britain and returns to
Nigeria to take up a senior position in the
Civil Service in the last years of the Colonial
rule.

6.  Next few years – travelled widely in East
Africa, the United States, Latin America and
Britain.
 1904 – Arrow of God
 The story of Umuofia between the first and
second Okonkwo
 1966 – A Man of the people – a novel
located outside of Nigeria

7.  Beware Soul Brother – a volume of poetry –
won Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1972
 June 2007 – Man Booker International Prize
 2008 – 50th anniversary of Things Fall Apart
 Lives with his wife in Providence, Rhode
Island

9.  William Wrightson Eustace Ross
 Born on June 14, 1894
at Peterborough, Ontario
 Died on August 26, 1966
 Canadian geophysicist and poet
 First modern Canadian poet
 Grew up in Pembroke, Ontario

10.  Ross began writing poetry in or around 1923.
His earliest works "are written in free
verse and reflect a knowledge of both
imagism and Japanese poetry.”
 Ross's next book, in 1932, was a volume
of Sonnets. It was meant as a companion
volume to Laconics, the subject matter of the
sonnets

11.  His first book,Laconics“ collects the imagist
poems Ross is best known for:" "The Fish,"
"The Diver," "The Dawn; the Birds," "The Snake
Trying," "Gum," "The Creek," "The Walk":
mostly, the poems of "North" that he had written
that one night in April 1928.
 Ross's writing became of special importance in
the 1950s and 1960s when new generations of
Canadian poets sought their precursors in the
modernist goals of restraint, precision, organic
rhythm, and the factual image."

12.  Publications
• Laconics (by E.R.)
• Sonnets (by E.R.)
• Experiment, 1923-1929.
• Shapes & sounds: poems of W. W. E. Ross
• Irrealities, Sonnets & Laconics

13.  Irrealities, Sonnets & Laconics
 Spouse: Mary Lowrey Ross
 Children: Mary (Molly)Loretta, Nancy Helen

15.  Patrick Victor Martindale White
 Born on 28 May 1912
 Died at 30 September 1990
 An Australian writer who is widely regarded
as one of the most important English-
language novelists of the 20th century.
 Novelist, playwright, poet, short-story writer,
essayist

16.  Miles Franklin Literary Award
1957 - Voss
1961 - Riders in the Chariot
Australian Literature Society Gold Medal
1941 - Happy Valley
1955 - The Tree of Man
1965 - The Burnt Ones
1973 - Australian of the Year Award
 Nobel Prize in Literature
1973

17.  born in Knightsbridge, London, to Victor
Martindale White and Ruth née Withycombe,
both Australians, in their apartment
overlooking Hyde Park, London on 28 May
1912.
 At the age of four, White developed asthma,
a condition that had taken the life of his
maternal grandfather

18.  His first book of poems, Thirteen
Poems published between the years
1927-29
 From 1932 to 1935, White lived in England,
studying French and German literature
at King's College, Cambridge University

19.  Novels
• Happy Valley (1939)
• The Living and the Dead (1941)
• The Aunt's Story (1948)
• The Tree of Man (1955)
• Voss (1957)
• Riders in the Chariot (1961)
• The Solid Mandala (1966)
 Plays
• Bread and Butter Women(1935) Unpublished.
• The School for Friends (1935) Unpublished.
• Return to Abyssinia (1948) Unpublished.

20.  When did Patrick White born?
 Whose Father is a Church Missionary
Society catechist ?
 When did Things Fall Apart published?
 Who is the First modern Canadian poet?
 When did Patrick White died?