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Article: Nigerian author Chinua Achebe receives $120k international prize.(EDUCATION)(Brief article)
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- July 2, 2007
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Chinua Achebe, dubbed the "Father of Modern African Writing," was named winner of the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction.
Achebe, 76, professor of languages and literature at Bard College in New York, will receive $120,000, according to the Associated Press.
The prize is awarded every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction worldwide.
Achebe has written more than 20 books and is best known for the novel, Things Fall Apart, which has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 50 langauges.
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