Chinua Achebe
1930–2013 · Writing
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Honors
112010The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
2007International Booker Prize
2002Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
2002Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1999St. Louis Literary Award
Bio
Chinua Achebe was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria. He was a writer, known for Things Fall Apart (1971), Things Fall Apart (1987) and Ebony (1982). He was married to Christine Chinwe Okoli. He died on March 21, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
