Chinua Achebe is nominated for Man Booker International prize

Man Booker International award's organisers announced on Thursday that Chinua Achebe is among 15 final authors chosen for the 2007 Man Booker International Prize worth 60,000-pound . This award is given every two years to only living writers of Fiction. The first prize was awarded to Ismail Kadare in 2005.
Some other 2007 nominees are Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, John Banville, Peter Carey, Don DeLillo, Carlos Fuentes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan, Harry Mulisch, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Amos Oz, Philip Roth and Michel Tournier.