出版社：Glendora International im African e-Journals Project
摘要：THE writer, Nurudeen Farah was named the 1998 winner of the Neustadt international prize for literature, widely regarded as the most prestigious international literary prize after the Nobel prize. The prize is conferred by the University of Oklahoma and its international journal, World Literature Today. Previous winners have included Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1972), Elizabeth Bishop (1976), Czeshaw Milosz (1978) and Octario Paz (1982). Nurudeen Farah who had been residing in Northern Nigeria since 1992 became the first African to win the Neustadt in its twentyseven year history. The Los Angeles Times in the month of December also selected his latest book of fiction entitled SECRETS (published by Arcade, New York as one of the best fiction books published in the United States in 1998 even as Village Literary Supplement, New York voted the same work as one of the best twenty novels to appear in 1998.
