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Chinua won The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 2010.

The annual prize was given to " a man or women who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and a mankinds enjoyment and understandment of life"

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Chinua Achebe won this Award  in October 2002.

This award acknowledged Chinua because the book is committed to peace, humanity, and understanding among all peoples and nations of the world.

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He felt the need to help his people understand the importance of remembering their roots of where Nigeria first started.

To not forget the past that keeps them believing in their values, to replace them with a modern society.

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Late Life 60- death (Journey to Success)

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Late Life 60- death (Journey to Success)

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He published Anthills of the Savanna in 1987

He received dozens of honorary doctorates

In 1994, he fled to Europe for the repressive Nigerian regime that threatened to jail him

He became president of his native village Ogidi

In 1999, he became goodwill embassador of UN Population Fund

In 2009, he joined the providence in Brown University

In the 1990s - he was in a car accident in Nigeria that left him paralyzed from the waist down and would confine him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

He died on March 21, 2013, at the age of 82, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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One last time (even though his last award was in 2010)...

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One last time (even though his last award was in 2010)...

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In 2007, Chinua Achebe won the Man Booker International Prize. This literary prize is awarded yearly to the best original novel that has been written in English and published in the UK.

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Achebe had a very successful writing career. He was given the
- Man Booker International Prize ( 2007 )
- The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize ( 2010)
- Peace Prize of German Book Trade ( 2002 )

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Early Years birth - 20s (Journey to Success)

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Early Years birth - 20s (Journey to Success)

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born November 16, 1930, Ogidi, Nigeria

grew up in the Igbo (Ibo) town of Ogidi, Nigeria

studied English and literature at University College (now the University of Ibadan)

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He wrote his first book in 1959,”Things fall apart.”

He brought social and physiology into Nigerian literature

All the books he wrote had a relevance to his childhood or something he had seen or heard throughout his lifetime

His books portrayed his point of view on Nigerian conflicts

He served Biafra as a diplomat

His mood has an effect on his poetry as well as books he published

He became director of Nwamife Publishers

He became a proffesor in Uniited States for the University of Massachusetts

He married Christiana Chinwe Okli and fathered 4 children