Chinua Achebe Wins Man Booker
Chinua Achebe Wins Man Booker
Arifa Akbar
LONDON, June 13: Chinua Achebe began writing his first novel after an aborted career in politics because he had a burning desire to change the world. Two years later, this magnum opus, Things Fall Apart, set in his homeland of Nigeria, did just that.
Now Achebe, at the age of 76, is being credited with delivering the definitive modern African novel as his seminal work is today awarded the £60,000 Man Booker International Prize.
See photos at Librarian.
Academics have hailed the publication of the book in 1958 as a watershed moment that is now inspiring a younger generation of African writers. Among those who cite him as an inspiration is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Nigerian novelist who won the Orange Prize for Fiction last week for Half A Yellow Sun.
Professor Elaine Showalter, a judge for the Man Booker International Prize, said Things Fall Apart and Achebe’s subsequent works, “inaugurated the modern African novel.”
Arifa Akbar
LONDON, June 13: Chinua Achebe began writing his first novel after an aborted career in politics because he had a burning desire to change the world. Two years later, this magnum opus, Things Fall Apart, set in his homeland of Nigeria, did just that.
Now Achebe, at the age of 76, is being credited with delivering the definitive modern African novel as his seminal work is today awarded the £60,000 Man Booker International Prize.
See photos at Librarian.
Academics have hailed the publication of the book in 1958 as a watershed moment that is now inspiring a younger generation of African writers. Among those who cite him as an inspiration is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Nigerian novelist who won the Orange Prize for Fiction last week for Half A Yellow Sun.
Professor Elaine Showalter, a judge for the Man Booker International Prize, said Things Fall Apart and Achebe’s subsequent works, “inaugurated the modern African novel.”
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