The Literary World

• Albert Chinua Achebe (born 1930)

  Nigerian poet and novelist.

  • Nigerian novelist, winner of the Margaret Wrong Memorial Prize, 1959, for Things Fall Apart, 1975 Lotus Award for Afro-Asian Writers, 1987 Booker Prize nomination for Anthills of the Savannah (see list of Prose Writers of the 20th Century)
  • Nigerian poet, winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, 1972, for Beware, Soul Brother (see list of Poets of the 20th Century)