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Chinua Achebe wins Man Booker International Prize |
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
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 Chinua Achebe, the man many African writers consider to be their literary idol - due to his advocacy for Igbo and African approaches to storytelling, his superb editorship of the era-defining African Writers Series, and his vehement denunciation of stereotypical Western portrayals of Africans in fiction in books such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness - was awarded the Man Booker International Prize on June 13, 2007, beating other aspirants such as Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Philip Roth.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 14 June 2007 )
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Chimamanda Adichie wins Orange Prize |
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
 An epic rendering of the brutal civil war in Nigeria involving the breakaway by Biafra clinched the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction in London last night. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie had been the favourite to take the award with her second novel Half of a Yellow Sun. At 30, she is younger than Zadie Smith, who won last year with On Beauty when the leading women’s fiction prize was still known as the Orange Prize. Read full article on the Times Online >> |
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Hisham Matar on Booker shortlist |
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 Hisham Matar is already working on a second novel | Libyan novelist Hisham Matar is among the six writers shortlisted for this year's £50,000 Man Booker Prize. Kiran Desai, Kate Grenville, M J Hyland, Sarah Waters and Edward St Aubyn are also up for the prize, due to be announced on 10 October. But British author David Mitchell - the bookmakers' early favourite to win when the longlist was announced last month - is not included on the shortlist. Each of the six shortlisted authors - selected from a longlist of 19 titles - receives £2,500. (Source: BBC; adapted for the eye) |
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