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Chigozie Obioma, né en 1986, est un écrivain nigérian.

✵ 1986
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Chigozie Obioma: Citations en anglais

“I'd heard someone say that the end of most things often bears a resemblance - even if faint - to their beginnings”

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The fishermen (2015)

“That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me.”

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The fishermen (2015)

“Listen, days decay, like food, like fish, like dead bodies. This night will decay, too and you will forget. Listen, we will forget.”

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The fishermen (2015)

“Do you not know that there is nothing the eye can see that can make it shed the tears of blood? Do you not know that there is no loss we cannot overcome”

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The fishermen (2015)

“I have now come to know that what one believes often becomes permanent, and what become permanent can be indestructible”

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The fishermen (2015)

“Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.”

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The fishermen (2015)

“There are some rhetorical moves that I wouldn’t be able to make if I didn’t know these languages. In terms of writing figurative language, I probably pull a lot from Yoruba imagery…”

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On his first novel The Fishermen in “'Why Jay?': Chigozie Obioma on the haunting death that inspired his novel” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/18/chigozie-obioma-why-do-my-stories-end-this-way-honestly-i-want-to-write-a-feelgood-story- in The Guardian (2019 Jan 18)

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