Lagos — Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe has won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction, it was announced in London yesterday. Achebe beat other nominees including Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan. The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction.
His award capped a triumphant month for Nigerian authors as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie last week landed the Orange Prize, one of the literary world's top awards for women writers.
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