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Article: Chinua Achebe wins 2007 Man Booker International Prize.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
- Article date:
- June 13, 2007
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Chinua Achebe wins 2007 Man Booker International Prize
London, June 12 (PTI) Nigerian-born Chinua Achebe, considered the father of Modern African Writing, has won the second Man Booker International Prize worth 60,000 pounds, edging out among others Indian-born Salman Rushdie.
The Man Booker International Prize is awarded once every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage.
It was first awarded to Ismail Kadare in 2005.
Besides Achebe and Rushdie, others in contention were Margaret Atwood, John Banville, Peter Carey, Don DeLillo, Carlos Fuentes, Doris Lessing, ...