Nigeria&#39;s Achebe wins international literature prize
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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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Wangari Maathai, Kenya&#39;s Deputy Environmental Minister and a former head of the National Council of Women of Kenya, became the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize last Friday for her work on issues such as education, nutrition, and women&#39;s rights.
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The Nobel prize for literature has this year been awarded to the Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek. The Swedish Academy, which has given the award to a European nine times in the last
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A Kenyan environmentalist and human rights campaigner has been awarded the Nobel peace prize, becoming the first African woman to win the prestigious award since it was created in 1901.
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Nigeria's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won Britain's Orange Prize for fiction by women, becoming the first African to take the award in its 12-year history, organizers said Wednesday.
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Nigeria's Chinua Achebe, hailed as the father of modern African writing, was awarded the 60,000 pound Man Booker International Prize on Wednesday.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Judges hail 'astonishing' story of Biafra conflictÂ· Writer's second novel voted top title by readers
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Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet Elfriede Jelinek has won the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature. Ms. Jelinek is the first woman since 1996 to obtain the coveted prize, worth $1.
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Austrian novelist and playwright  Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize for Literature on  Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.
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MADRID, Spain: Leading Israeli intellectual Amos Oz was awarded the annual Prince of Asturias prize for literature on Wednesday in recognition of his works denouncing extremism and advocating ... via International Herald Tribune
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Kenyan Deputy Environment Minister Wangari Muta Maathai has been named winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, beating a number of much better known world names to the prestigious award.
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"The vast majority of the money we've seen has been for Adichie. Punters reckon it's in the bag"  Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was installed as hot favourite on Tuesday to land the Orange Prize, the literary world's top award for fiction in English written by women. via Scotsman.com
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Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan who created a women&#39;s movement which has planted more than 30m trees in 20 countries, became the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize yesterday.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Austrian feminist writer Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays."   The decision to award the prize to a woman, and a poet, was the first since 1996, when Wislawa Szymborska of Poland won. Since the prize first was handed out in 1901, only nine women have won it...
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Wangari Maathai of Kenya became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote democracy, protect the environment and improve social conditions.
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Previous winners of the Nobel Peace Prize who were from Africa.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for aiding the continent's poor with a campaign to plant millions of trees to slow down deforestation.