Tony Ubesie

{{Short description|Nigerian novelist}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Tony Ubesie

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| birth_name = Anthony Uchenna Ubesie

| birth_date = 22 February 1950

| birth_place = St. Barth's Maternity Home, Asata, Achi, Enugu

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1994|February|11|1950|February|22|df=yes}}

| death_place = Mmaku, Enugu state

| occupation = {{hlist|Novelist|Broadcaster|Poet|Theatre director|Cultural activist}}

| language = Igbo language

| nationality = Nigerian

| alma_mater = University of Nigeria

| genre = Literary fiction

| children = 5

| years_active = 1973 — 1994

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Anthony Uchenna Ubesie (22 February 1950 — 11 February 1994){{Cite book|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195382075|editor1=Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong|editor2=Henry Louis Gates, Jr.|editor3=Steven J. Niven|chapter=Ubesie, Uchenna Anthony (1950–1994)|title =Dictionary of African biography|location = Oxford; New York|pages =|year=2012}} was a Nigerian novelist, poet, playwright, broadcaster, educator, community leader, actor, and producer.{{cite book|title=Tony Uchenna Ubesie (1950–1994): The Man and the Artist|author-link=E. Nolue Emenanjo|first=E. Nọlue|last=Emanajo|year=2001|pages=1–19}} He is widely known as one of the pioneers of early Igbo literature.{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3819923|title=Tradition and Innovation in the Igbo Novels of Tony Ubesie|first=J. O. J.|last=Nwachukwu-Agbada|journal=Research in African Literatures|volume=28|issue=1|series=The Oral-Written Interface|year=1997|pages=124–133 (10 pages)|publisher=Indiana University Press|jstor=3819923|oclc=38214509}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/igbo/afirika-55106145|title=Igbo Literature: Omenuko, Ije Odumodu, Mbediogu na akwụkwọ Igbo ndị ọzọ ị gaghị echefu echefu maka mwelite ha welitere asụsụ Igbo|first=Uche|last=Akolisa|website=BBC Igbo|location=Lagos|date=15 January 2021|access-date=20 April 2022|language=ig}}{{cite book|chapter=Tony Uchenna Ubesie: The quintessential Igbo novelist|author=Ernest N. Emenyonu|title=The Literary History of the Igbo Novel|edition=first|year=2020|publisher=Routledge|pages=115–124|isbn=9781003017455}}