1930 - 1992

Chinua Achebe's Works:
Home And Exile

The Trouble With Nigeria

Chike And The River

Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories

Girls At War

Anthills Of The Savannah

Arrow Of God

Things Fall Apart

A Grain Of Wheat

Achebe's Awards
Margaret Wrong Memorial Prize, 1959, for Things Fall Apart
Rockefeller travel fellowship to East and Central Africa, 1960
Nigerian National Trophy, 1961, for No Longer at Ease
UNESCO fellowship for creative artists for travel to the United States and Brazil, 1963
Jock Campbell/ New Statesman Award, 1965, for Arrow of God
Commonwealth Poetry Prize, 1972, for Beware, Soul Brother
Neil Gunn International Fellow, Scottish Arts Council, 1975
Lotus Award for Afro-Asian Writers, 1975
Nigerian National Merit Award, 1979
named to the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1979
Commonwealth Foundation senior visiting practitioner award, 1984
Booker Prize nomination, 1987, for Anthills of the Savannah
A Man of the People cited in Anthony Burgess's 1984 Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in England since 1930