Facts about Postcolonial Literature and Key Authors

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   Edward Said's Orientalism, published in 1978, is considered the foundational text that established postcolonial studies as an academic discipline.

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   Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, a foundational text in postcolonial theory, was originally written in French and published in 1961.

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   Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a central figure in postcolonial literature, famously abandoned writing in English to compose his novels in his native Gikuyu language.

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   Salman Rushdie's postcolonial novel Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981 and later received the Booker of Bookers award.

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   Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, a landmark of postcolonial literature, is widely considered the most widely read African novel ever written.

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