Man Booker International judges honour Chinua Achebe
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Arts & entertainment: 'Father of modern African literature' beats formidable shortlist to Â£60,000 prize.
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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, better 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 since it was first awarded in 1901...
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Mozambique's former President Joaquim Chissano, who brought peace and democracy to his country, won the first Mo Ibrahim Prize for achievement in African leadership.
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(London) For the first time a gay novel has won the prestigious Booker Prize. Alan Hollinghurst was awarded the prize Tuesday night in London for the critically acclaimed &quot;The Line of Beauty.
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Long-standing favorite Ian McEwan faced a strong challenge from little-known New Zealand writer Lloyd Jones on Thursday, as judges announced the finalists for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction.
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Text of report by Radio Tanzania on 18 February  British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC Africa Radio awards winners from east Africa have been announced.
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Proponents say the Ibrahim Prize will help improve the continent's crippling governance problem.
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Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," winner last fall of the Man Booker Prize, was among the finalists announced Tuesday for the 11th annual Kiriyama Prize for works "that promote greater understanding of and among the nations of the Pacific Rim and of South Asia."
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LONDON: Judges will soon reveal a shortlist of six books in the running for the Man Booker Prize, one of the world&#39;s top literary awards.
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Officials have announced the shortlist for Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize.
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British author Sarah Waters was installed  as 2-1 favorite for the Booker Prize after judges left a string of
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Human rights and environmental activists have hailed the award of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to Wangari Maathai of Kenya as fitting recognition of the growing role of civil society
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Wangari Muta Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was honoured Friday for her efforts to help women, clean up the environment and battle corruption.
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Former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano wins a new Â£2.5m prize for African excellence in leadership.
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Mozambique's former President Joaquim Chissano won the first Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African leadership on Monday.
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Nigeria&#39;s outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo visited Liberia and Sierra Leone Saturday to receive top honours for his country&#39;s role in helping quell civil wars in the two west African states.
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British author Alan Hollinghurst won the  Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary  awards, on Tuesday for the tale of a gay hedonist living in  Margaret Thatcher's Britain of the 1980s.