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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
NIGERIAN-BORN Uzodinma Iweala has been declared the winner of the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Literature with his first novel, Beasts of No Nation (John Murray, 2005), the story of an African child soldier. At 23, Iweala has become one of the youngest winners of the prize for writers below the age of 35. Congratulations!
I am a senior book and magazine editor who lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I love books and the freedom to read whatever makes me happy: both fiction and nonfiction. I have always been obsessed with the relationship between literature and life and its role in society. As an editor, I have edited many books, but never get tired of the grand adventure of reading. We must never underestimate the redeeming power of fiction in our lives. The idea that there is something out there that is far, far bigger than our lives sustains some of our lives. I am the co-editor of URBAN ODYSSEYS: KL STORIES.
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this sounds really interesting, have you read it?
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