Juliane Okot Bitek

Juliane Okot Bitek wins Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry 2017

Juliane Okot Bitek is the winner of the African Poetry Book Fund’s Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry 2017.

The African Poetry Book fund, established through the generosity of Laura and Robert F. X. Sillerman and in partnership with the literary journal Prairie Schooner, seeks to celebrate and cultivate the poetic arts of Africa.

The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, funded by literary philanthropist and poet Glenna Luschei, is awarded annually to an African poet who has not yet published a collection of poetry. The winner receives USD $1000 and book publication through the University of Nebraska Press and Amalion Press in Senegal. Previous winners of this prize are Rethabile Masilo (2016), Kobus Moolman (2015), and Amu Nnadi (2014)

This year’s prize goes to Juliane Okot Bitek, for her poetry collection 100 Days (University of Alberta Press, 2016). Award-winning writer and scholar John Keene judged this year’s prize.

You can read more about this win here.


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3 responses to “Juliane Okot Bitek wins Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry 2017”

  1. […] published in the previous calendar year by an African poet. Previous winners of the prize have been Juliane Okot Bitek (2017), Rethabile Masilo (2016), Kobus Moolman (2015), and Amu Nnadi […]

  2. […] published in the previous calendar year by an African poet. Previous winners of the prize have been Juliane Okot Bitek (2017), Rethabile Masilo (2016), Kobus Moolman (2015), and Amu Nnadi […]

  3. […] Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek is the writer of 100 Days (University of Alberta 2016), a book of poetry that reflects on the meaning of memory two decades after the Rwanda genocide. The collection was nominated for several writing prizes including the 2017 B.C. Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the 2017 Alberta Book Awards, and the 2017 Canadian Authors Award for Poetry. It won the IndieFab Book of the Year Award 2017 for poetry and the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry 2017. […]

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