Chinua Achebe wins 2007 Man Booker International Prize

From the press release :

The Man Booker International Prize is worth £60,000 to the winner and is awarded once every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage. It was first awarded to Ismail Kadaré in 2005.

Achebe is probably best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart, written in 1958 and Anthills of the Savannah, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1987.

Continuer here

RK: never heard of this guy – – if I’m in a bookshop next weekend, I’ll see if I can find one of his books.