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Nobel Prize eludes Ngugi wa Thiong'o yet again

NAIROBI, KENYA: French historical author Patrick Modiano beat Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o to bag the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Ngugi had been touted by The Guardian, a British daily, as the frontrunner for the Sh98.4 million prize alongside Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.

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