Chinua Achebe wins Boooker Prize

The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA: "Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe has won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.

The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years and honors a writer's entire body of fiction. (It is separate from the original Man Booker Prize, which honors a particular novel every year.)

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Achebe, 76, is best known for his first novel, ''Things Fall Apart,'' published in 1958, and for ''Anthills of the Savannah,'' published more than 30 years later. But he has written more than 20 books, including novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry."