A Nigerian reknown writer, Aniche lost a Nobel Laureate award to Moyan, a Chinese today in Sweden.The Swedish Academy praised his work “with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”.
The 57-year-old
is the 109th recipient of the prestigious prize, which was given last year to Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer.
Presented by the Nobel Foundation, the award – only given to living writers – is worth 8 million krona (£741,000).
Culled:CNN
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