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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Kenyan novelist and Marxist critic, imprisoned in 1977–1978 and exiled, author of Petals of Blood (1977) and Decolonising the Mind (1986).

Lived: 1938–2025
Also known as: James Ngugi · Ngugi wa Thiongo
Authority records: Wikidata · VIAF · Library of Congress · GND · ISNI · BnF
Sources: Wikipedia — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Bibliography

First editions. A tick marks a work matched to a library catalogue record.

Year	Title	First published by	Records
1964	Weep Not, Child	Heinemann Educ, London	Open Library
1965	The River Between	Heinemann, Oxford	Open Library
1967	A Grain of Wheat	Heinemann, London	Open Library
1977	Petals of Blood	Heinemann, London	Open Library
2006	Wizard of the Crow	Pantheon Books, New York	Open Library
2010	Dreams in a Time of War — A Childhood Memoir	Pantheon Books, New York	Open Library

Editions in the catalogue

Editions of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o by year: 17 dated titles, 1964–2024, most in 1969 (2). Lines mark died 2025.

The figures by decade

Decade	Titles
1960s	3
1970s	7
1980s	6
2020s	1

Year	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Language
1964	Chmury i lzy✓	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy	Polish
1969	Abschied von der Nacht✓ — Roman	Ngugi wa Thiong'o & Klaus Schultz	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1969	Pšeničnoe zerno✓ — Roman	Ngugi wa Thiong'o	Progress Publishers	Russian
1970	Der Fluss dazwischen✓	Ngugi wa Thiong'o & Karl Fischer	Verlag Neues Leben	German
1970	Der Fluß dazwischen✓	Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Karl Heinrich & Karl Fischer	Verlag Neues Leben	German
1971	Preis der Wahrheit✓ — Roman	Ngugi wa Thiong'o	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1972	Chmury i łzy✓ Współczesna Proza Światowa	Ngugi wa Thiong'o & Zofia Kierszys	Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy	Polish
1973	Der Löwe und die Perle. Obatalas Gefangenschaft. Die Gelegenheit. Der schwarze Eremit Volk und Welt Spektrum, 61	Wole Soyinka, Obotunde Ijimere, Arthur Maimane, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Marianne Bretschneider, Helmut Heinrich & Burkhard Forstreuter	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1977	Verborgene Schicksale✓ — Kurzgeschichten Edition Suhrkamp; 1111	Ngugi wa Thiong'o	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1979	Un Grano de Trigo✓	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo	Editorial Arte y Literatura	Spanish
1980	Land der flammenden Blüten✓ — Roman	Ngugi wa Thiong'o	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
1981	Krovavye lepestki✓	Ngugi wa Thiong'o	Progress Publishers	Russian
1985	Raspiatyĭ dʹiavol✓ — Roman	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo	Raduga Publishers	Russian
1985	Raspjatyj d'javol✓ — Roman; per. s angl	Ngugi wa Thiong'o	Raduga Publishers	Not recorded
1986	Der Löwe und die Perle✓ Volk-und-Welt-Spektrum; 61	Wole Soyinka, Obotunde Ijimere, Ulli Beier, Arthur Maimane & Ngugi wa Thiong'o	Verlag Volk und Welt	German
December 1986	Walter Rodney's Influence on the African Continent	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo	Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications	English
2024	Dekolonialer Marxismus✓ — Schriften aus der panafrikanischen Revolution Theorie	Walter Rodney, Asha Rodney, Patricia Rodney, Ben Mabie, Jesse J. Benjamin & Ngugi wa Thiong'o	Dietz Verlag Berlin	German