Panel discussion on Things Fall Apart

WAMC Northeast Public Radio's The Book Show aired a long excerpt of a fascinating panel discussion entitled: "Revisiting Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Fiftieth-Year Retrospective." One of the panelists was the great writer himself.

(Audio available here)

Achebe

The Washington Post has a good piece on Chinua Achebe and how he became the father of modern African literature.

Achebe wins Man Booker Int'l Prize

Congrats to Chinua Achebe for being awarded the Man Booker International Prize, which recognizes a living author for his or her entire body of work. His first book, Things Fall Apart, is generally considered the first modern African novel, which was inspired by his anger at how Africans were portrayed in western writing. Achebe also gave an audio interview with the Voice of America.

Ironically, the father of modern African literature has not been awarded the Nobel Prize, despite being one of the most influential authors of the last century.

Update: The Christian Science Monitor had a good article on it too.