This African writer's most important works include *Things Fall Apart* and *No Longer at Ease.* The author is

Nadine Gordimer was a prominent South African writer known for her works that examine the complexities of life under apartheid. While she is a significant figure in African literature, her most notable works include *Burger's Daughter* and *July's People*, not *Things Fall Apart* or *No Longer at Ease*.

Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright and poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. His major works include plays like *Death and the King's Horseman* and *The Lion and the Jewel*, which focus on themes of oppression and cultural conflict, rather than the novels in question.

J. M. Coetzee, a South African novelist and Nobel laureate, is known for works such as *Disgrace* and *Waiting for the Barbarians*. His novels engage with themes of colonialism and ethics, but he is not the author of *Things Fall Apart* or *No Longer at Ease*.

Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and novelist, best known for *The Famished Road*. While he is an important figure in contemporary African literature, his works do not include *Things Fall Apart* or *No Longer at Ease*, which are associated specifically with Achebe.