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Friday, December 3, 2010

Chinua Achebe Wins Gish Prize


Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe recently won the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for his over half-century of distinguished contributions to the arts. Achebe is considered to be one of the architects of modern African literature; his Things Fall Apart is required reading for many college students, including some at Georgia Perimeter College. For more on this story, click here.
(Above photo from Brown University website; photo credit Mike Cohea)

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