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• ...that Chinua Achebe's novel A Man of the People described a coup d'état so similar to the real circumstances of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi's rise to power in Nigeria that Achebe was suspected of knowing about the coup in advance?
• ...that the 1923 children's novel King Matt the First is as popular in Poland as Peter Pan is in the English-speaking world?
• ...that the Finnish novel Puhdistus (Purge) by Sofi Oksanen has won awards in Finland and France but had mixed reviews in Estonia, where the story takes place?

Source

1. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/October#13 October 2007, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/May#23 May 2010, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/November#23 November 2010, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.