Ishmael Beah
Ishmael Beah | |
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 Ishmael Beah, 2007 | |
| Born | Ismael Beah November 23, 1980 Mogbwemo, Bonthe District, Sierra Leone |
| Occupation | Human Rights Activist, former child soldier |
| Nationality | Sierra Leonean |
| Notable works | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
Ishmael Beah (born on November 23, 1980[1]) is a former Sierra Leonean child soldier and the author of the published memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. His first novel, Radiance of Tomorrow, will be published in 2014.[2]
Biography
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Awards and recognition
A Long Way Gone was nominated for a Quill Award in the Best Debut Author category for 2007. Time magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #3, and praising it as "painfully sharp", and its ability to take "readers behind the dead eyes of the child-soldier in a way no other writer has."[3]
Controversy
The accuracy of the events and chronology presented in "A Long Way Gone" have been called into question, particularly the claim that Beah became a child soldier in 1993, rather than in 1995 as the timeline of events in Sierra Leone's civil war suggests. [4]
See also
- Children of War (2010) documentary by Bryan Single
- Jimmie Briggs investigator and author of Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War
- P. W. Singer investigator and author of Children at War(2005)
Further reading
- Beah, Ishmael (2014). Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel. Sarah Crichton Books. ISBN 9780374246020.
- Beah, Ishmael (2007). A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Sarah Crichton Books. ISBN 978-0-374-10523-5.
- Beah, Ishmael (2000). When Good Comes From Bad, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
References
- ^ UNICEF, Youth leadership profiles, . Retrieved February 15, 2007.
- ^ "BEA 2013: Ishmael Beah: After War", Hilary S. Kayle, Publishers Weekly, May 30, 2013.
- ^ Poniewozik, James; Top 10 Nonfiction Books; time.com
- ^ Sherman, Gabriel; The Fog of Memoir: The feud over the truthfulness of Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone; slate.com
External links
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- [1] On July 3, 2009.
- [2] On 1 July 2009.
- Ishmael Beah at Cody's Bookstore on FORA.tv on Feb. 23, 2007
- Video: Interview on The Daily Show, February 14, 2007.
- Interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, February 21, 2007.
- Online interview from CBC Words at Large
- Information on speaking appearances
- Interview on Enough Rope with Andrew Denton, July 2, 2007.
- Amnesty International keywords child soldiers
- Center for Defense Information
- The Children and Armed Conflict
- Child Rights Information Network
- Coalition to stop the use of Child Soldiers
- Human Rights Watch
- Reuters AlertNet
- UNICEF
- United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks
- War Child
- Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict
- C-SPAN Q&A interview with Beah, April 1, 2007
- Ishmael Beah at Library of Congress, with 4 library catalog records
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- Wikipedia external links cleanup from February 2014
- 1980 births
- Child soldiers
- Living people
- African-American activists
- American people of Sierra Leonean descent
- Sierra Leonean emigrants to the United States
- Oberlin College alumni
- People from Brooklyn
- Sierra Leonean military personnel
- Sierra Leonean refugees
- Sierra Leonean activists
- Sierra Leonean Muslims
- American memoirists
- African-American non-fiction writers