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CHINUA ACHEBE WINS $300,000 PRIZE FOR UNPRECEDENTED IMPACT ON LITERATURE

Posted by TheBlackList on September 28, 2010 at 4:00pm

Chinua Achebe, author of “Things Fall Apart,” has been selected to receive the 2010 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for his “unprecedented impact in literature.”

Achebe, professor of Africana studies at Brown University, has written more than 20 books, often using his writing to forge a better understanding of modern-day Africa, said Brown on Friday.

The 80-year-old author has founded a number of magazines for African art, fiction and poetry. As editor of Heinemann Publishing’s “African Writers S

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