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Chinua Achebe: books and prizes

Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet and critic born in Ogidi in eastern Nigeria. His first novel, Things Fall Apart, was published in 1958. He received the Man Booker International Prize in 2007.^1,2

Works, in order of first publication

1. 1958Things Fall Apart^1,2novel
2. 1960No Longer at Ease²novel
3. 1964Arrow of God²novel
4. 1973Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems²poetry
5. 1997Another Africa²poetry
6. 2000Home and Exile²essays
7. 2002Collected Poems²poetry
8. 2012There Was a Country, A Personal History of Biafra²memoir

Prizes

1. 1972Commonwealth Poetry Prize²For Beware, Soul-Brother, and Other Poems
2. 2007Man Booker International Prize¹For Body of work

Sources

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chinua Achebe, Encyclopaedia Britannica (accessed 2026-10-28)
2. Poetry Foundation, Chinua Achebe, Poetry Foundation (accessed 2026-10-28)