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Author of Nigeria wins Booker honor PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 14 June 2007

The Nigerian author Chinua Achebe is best known for his 1958 debut novel Things Fall Apart, which sold more than 10 million copies.

The 76 year old creator, who was paralyzed from the waist down after a car accident in 1990, beat writers including Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie to the honor. The Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has won the Man Booker International Prize in honor of his literary career. The £60,000 prize, awarded every two years, will be presented to Achebe at a ceremony in Oxford on 28 June.
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