Achebe wins Booker International
12 June 2007 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has been announced as the second recipient of the Man Booker International Prize, worth £60,000 (A$135,000).Achebe is known as 'the father of modern African literature'. The chairwoman of the judging committee, the academic and critic Elaine Showalter, said: 'In Things Fall Apart and his other fiction...
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