Other contenders included Salman Rushdie, Syrian poet Adonis and Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong 'o.
其他的竞争者还包括萨尔曼曼·拉什迪，叙利亚诗人阿多尼斯和肯尼亚作家恩赛。
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Ngugi campaigned in his more recent career not to write in English and also to urge other African writers to write in native languages and not in the language of the colonizer.