Achebe Wins Booker Prize for Fiction
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"Chinua Achebe's early work made him the father of modern African literature as an integral part of world literature"  Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction.Achebe, 76, is best known for his first novel, 'Things Fall Apart' (1958), and 'Anthills of the Savannah,' published more than 30 years later. He has written more than 20 books, including novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry. Read more
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Nigerian director Newton Aduaka  lifted the top prize at Africa's most prestigious film festival  for "Ezra," the tale of a child soldier who struggles to  readapt after Sierra Leone's civil war.
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Hungarian novelist Peter Esterhazy wins the prestigious peace prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has been awarded a prestigious international award for literature, beating authors such as Salman Rushdie, Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood, organisers said Tuesday.
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Author Alan Hollinghurst has won Britain&#39;s prestigious Booker Prize for 2004 with his novel &quot;The Line of Beauty.&quot;. &quot;The Line of Beauty&quot; is a colorful tale about an Oxford University graduate living in the London
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British author Alan Hollinghurst won the prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize, for his explicitly gay novel &quot;The Line of Beauty,&quot; a satire about Britain under Margaret Thatcher.
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LONDON, Oct. 20. - Alan Hollinghurstâs explicit gay novel The Line of Beauty, a satire on Britain under Mrs Margaret Thatcher, has won the Â£50,000 prestigious international literary award, the Booker Prize.
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Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday
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OSLO, Norway - Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first African woman to win the prize, first awarded in 1901...
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The winner of this yearâs Man Booker Prize spoke of his joy at scooping the prestigious Â£50,000 (â¬72,100) award. Alan Hollinghurstâs novel The Line of Beauty, about Thatcherism and gay sex, beat David
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Kenya's Wangari Maathai wins this year Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to do so.
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Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s explicitly gay novel &#39;The Line of Beauty&#39;, a satire on Britain under Margaret Thatcher, has won the 50,000-pound Booker Prize, the prestigious international literary award.
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Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s novel, The Line of Beauty, a tale of a young gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher&#39;s London, won Britain&#39;s most prestigious literary award - the Booker Prize.
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Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist, today became the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize. Ms Maathai, 64, Kenya&#39;s deputy environment minister, heads the Green Belt movement, a group that
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Author Alan Hollinghurst poses with his book, The Line of Beauty, winner of The 2004 Booker Prizer Literary Prize. Photo: AFP. British author Alan Hollinghurst today won the Booker Prize, one of the world&#39;s
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British author Sarah Waters was  installed on Thursday as 2-1 favorite for the Booker Prize  after judges left a string of literary heavyweights off the  shortlist for one of the world's top book awards.
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"The Line of Beauty," Alan Hollinghurst's novel about a young gay man in Thatcherite Britain in the mid-1980's, won the Man Booker Prize.