Chinua Achebe 被尊称为 “ 现代非洲文学之父 ”，他于 1930 年出生在奈及利亚的 Ogidi 小镇。 1958 年，正值 28 岁的 Chinua Achebe 出版了生平写作的第一部小说 “崩溃 (Things Fall Apart)” 后，迅速成为国际瞩目的评论焦点，也创造了高销售量的成功纪录。 1958 年，正值 28 岁的 Chinua Achebe 出版了生平写作的第一部小说 “ 崩溃 (Things Fall Apart)“后，迅速成为国际瞩目的评论焦点，也创造了高销售量的成功纪录。 这部小说，成为现代非洲文学中，最广受流传阅读的经典着作，自出版至今，已被翻译超过五十种语言，在全球销售超过一亿本。 这部小说，成为现代非洲文学中，最广受流传阅读的经典着作，自出版至今，已被翻译超过五十种语言，在全球销售超过一亿本。

Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous throughout West Africa. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy. Chinua Achebe's stark novel reshaped both African and world literature. This arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people begins Achebe's landmark trilogy of works chronicling the fate of one African community, continued in Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease.

Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He was raised in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centers of Anglican missionary work in Eastern Nigeria, and is a graduate of University College, Ibadan. His early career in radio ended abruptly in 1966, when he left his post as Director of External Broadcasting in Nigeria during the national upheaval that led to the Biafran War. Achebe joined the Biafran Ministry of Information and represented Biafra on various diplomatic and fund-raising missions. He was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and began lecturing widely abroad. For over fifteen years, he was the Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. He is now the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana studies at Brown University. Chinua Achebe has written over twenty books - novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry - and has received numerous honours from around the world, including the Honourary Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as honourary doctorates from more than thirty colleges and universities. He is also the recipient of Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement, the Nigerian National Merit Award. In 2007, he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction.