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Book Digest: Lesley-Ann Brown, Nelson Lineu, Wole Talabi, Remy Ngamije
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Lesley-Ann Brown, Nelson Lineu, Wole Talabi, and Remy Ngamije. Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology edited by Wole Talabi Publisher: Android PressDate: November 21, 2023Genre: Speculative FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Amazon Wole Talabi Wole Talabi is an engineer, writer,…
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LitFest Harare 2023 celebrates decade
LitFest Harare 2023 is celebrating a decade of running in Harare, Zimbabwe from November 29 – December 2, 2023. The theme this year is “Words Remember: A Decade of Story.” LitFest Harare is a literature festival founded by poet and curator Chirikure Chirikure and hosted by a dedicated team annually in Harare, Zimbabwe since 2013.…
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Irenosen Okojie on Dublin International Literary Award 2024 jury
Irenosen Okojie is on the jury for the Dublin International Literary Award 2024 announced in Dublin on Tuesday, November 28, 2023. The Dublin International Literary Award is presented annually for a novel written in English or translated into English to promote excellence in world literature. The prize worth €100,000 is sponsored by the Dublin City…
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2024 longlists announced.
The longlists for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2024 in literature, Children’s Literature, Young Author and Translation were announced on November 17 and 28, 2023. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is presented to Arab writers, intellectuals, and publishers as well as young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab…
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Bernardine Evaristo to chair Global Black Women’s Nonfiction Manuscript Prize jury.
Bernardine Evaristo is the chair of the jury of the new Global Black Women’s Nonfiction Manuscript Prize announced on November 28. Others are Sylvia Tamale, Natalie Baszile, Carole Boyce Davies, and Panashe Chigumadzi. In October, Cassava Republic Press announced the new Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize open to emerging and established Black women writers globally.…
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Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards 2023 winners announced.
Roxane Bayer, Nina Van Zyl, and Veripuamu Nandee Kangumine won the Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards 2023 in Windhoek on November 28, 2023. The Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards was introduced to the African literary community in 2021 by Doek. The first winners of the bi-annual awards in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry were Ndawedwa Denga…
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CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa launched
The CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa was launched at the Intra-African Trade Fair in Cairo, Egypt on Thursday, November 9, 2023. The Intra-African Trade Fair, the continent’s largest trade and investment fair, ran in Egypt’s capital from November 9 – 15, 2023. One of its standout events was the CANEX (Creative Africa Nexus)…
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Salon Du Livre de Mayotte 2023 starts December 1
The third edition of Salon Du Livre de Mayotte 2023 is set to run in Mamoudzou, Mayotte from December 1 – 2, 2023. Salon Du Livre De Mayotte (Mayotte Book Fair) was first hosted in Mayotte in the northern Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Southeast Africa in 2017. They hosted…
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Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2023 shortlist announced.
The shortlist for Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2023 has been announced today, Monday, November 27, 2023. Prix Littéraire Les Afriques is awarded annually to an African or writer of African descent who has written fiction highlighting a human, societal, ideological, political, cultural, economic, or historical issue related to Africa or its diaspora. Prix Les Afriques,…
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Okada Books set to shut down on November 30.
Nigeria’s digital publishing and bookselling platform Okada Books is set to cease operations on Thursday, November 30, 2023. In 2013, Okada Books was launched by Nigerian writer Okechukwu Ofili to simplify the distribution and selling of books in Nigeria. It was built on making self-publishing easy while connecting writers to people who would pay for…
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Nuria Books takes up Naivas’ Kenyan book distribution
Popular bookstore Nuria Books has taken up the distribution of Kenyan books for megastore Naivas. The deal was made public on November 20, 2023. In 2021, leading retailer Naivas Supermarkets announced a new initiative to bring books by Kenyan writers to be known to their many customers. The initiative called for Kenyan authors and publishers…
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Femrite’s International Literature Festival celebrates Abdulrazak Gurnah.
The International Literature Festival celebrating Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah will be hosted by Femrite in Kyambogo University, Kampala from November 22 – 24, 2023. Author and academic Abdulrazak Gurnah was declared literature laureate at the Nobel Prize in 2021; he is the first from East Africa to win the coveted award. The Zanzibar-born UK-based writer…
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Eloghosa Osunde wins Museum of African Diaspora’s African Literary Award 2023
Eloghosa Osunde’s novel Vagabonds! won the Museum of African Diaspora’s African Literary Award 2023 on Monday, November 20, 2023. The Museum of the African Diaspora is a contemporary art museum in San Francisco, California. One of only a few museums of its kind in the USA, they hold exhibitions and present artists exclusively of the…
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Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty 2023 kicks off November 22
Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty 2023 runs in Paraty, Brazil from November 22 – 26, 2023. The theme is “landscapes inside and outside.” The Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty (International Literary Festival of Paraty – FLIP) is a literary festival held annually in Paraty, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since 2003. It…
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Davis Tamba wins Yours2read Short Story Competition.
Davis Tamba won the Yours2read Short Story Competition at the Alliance Française Nairobi on Thursday, November 16, 2023. The Yours2read Short Story Competition is a collaboration of the Writers Guild-Kenya, Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA), and Yours2read (UK). It aims to provide writers with a platform to share their genuine African narratives, propelling them to…
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