Nigeria: Achebe Beats Salman Rushidie, Others to Win £60,000 Man Booker Int. Prize

14 June 2007

Lagos — HONOUR has continued to come to the country's literary clime as foremost African writer and father of modern African fiction, Chinua Achebe was Wednesday honoured by distinguished judges comprising South African Nobel Laureate and renowned novelist, Nadine Gordimer and novelist, Elaine Showalter and Colm Toiibiin as the winner of 2007 £60,000 Man Booker International Prize.

Coming few days after the fast rising Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie also won in London the prestigious £30,000 British Broadband Orange Prize for the best novel published by a female writer in English, Achebe clinched the revered prize by beating other illustrious contenders comprising Britain's Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan, Indian born writer, Salman Rushidie, Irish born John Banville, Canadian novelists, Magaret Artwood, Alice Munro and Michael Ondaatje as well as American Philip Roth and Don DeLillo.

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