Chinua Achebe, requiescat in pace ...

[Bekah]

I'm also saddened by this news -  I've read and enjoyed Things Fall Apart several times.   I always meant to read further -  He was the Man-Booker International winner in 2007.  

Thanks Dave, 

Bekah

On Mar 22, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Oh, that's very sorry.
> 
> I love his novel "Things Fall Apart" which still waits for a good
> German translation; the existing one ("Okonkwo oder Das Alte stürzt",
> edition suhrkamp 1983) isn't very good.
> 
> 2013/3/22 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
>> Chinua Achebe (1930 - 2013)
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe
>> 
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/africa/chinua-achebe-nigerian-writer-dies-at-82.html