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Sitawa Namwalie to be feted at All African Women Poetry Festival 2025
Sitawa Namwalie will be feted at the All African Women Poetry Festival in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday, January 25, 2025. The All African Women Poetry Festival was launched by the Emma Ofosua-founded Tuniq Africa in Accra, Ghana in 2023. It was aimed at celebrating African literature and literary legends, empowering African women, women of African…
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US National Book Critics Circle Awards 2024 finalists announced
The US National Book Critics Circle Awards 2024 finalists were announced in New York, USA on Thursday, January 23, 2025. The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) celebrates the best books published in English in Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism in the United States since 1974. Finalists are nominated, evaluated, and selected by a…
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Tufts Poetry Award 2025 finalists announced
Gregory Pardlo, Romeo Oriogun, and Ariana Benson are among the Tufts Poetry Award 2025 finalists announced on Thursday, January 23, 2025. The Tufts poetry awards—based at USA-based Claremont Graduate University and given for poetry volumes published in the preceding year—are not only two of the most prestigious prizes a contemporary poet can receive, they also…
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Alexander Nderitu Prize For World Literature 2024 shortlist announced
The Alexander Nderitu Prize For World Literature 2024 shortlist was announced in Nairobi on Thursday, January 9, 2025. The Alexander Nderitu Prize For World Literature is a new prize awarded to the best unpublished short story from anywhere in the world. Aimed at launching new literary stars, it is named for Kenyan writer and critic…
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Hubert Haddad is Prix Littéraire Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025 finalist
Hubert Haddad was declared a Prix Littéraire Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025 finalist on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. Prix Montluc Resistance et Liberté (English: Montluc Resistance and Freedom Prize) is awarded to an author, whether French or foreign, whose work questions current methods of fighting against oppression in all its manifestations, or whose work represents…
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Book Digest: Dzifa Benson, Nathaniel Bivan, Yael Valencia Aldana
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books from Dzifa Benson, Nathaniel Bivan, and Yael Valencia Aldana. Black Mestiza by Yael Valencia Aldana Publisher: University Press of KentuckyDate: January 21, 2025Genre: PoetryLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: University Press of Kentucky Yael Valencia Aldana Yael Valencia Aldana, an Afro-Latinx/e poet and writer, is the author of…
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Nincemon Fallé is Afriques-Haïti Residency 2025 winner
Nincemon Fallé was announced the winner of the Francophone writing residency Afriques-Haïti 2025 on Friday, January 17, 2025. The Afriques-Haïti writing residency, aimed at promoting the emergence of new African and Haitian literary talents was first handed out in 2017. It is designed as a 6 to 8-week course within structures involved in contemporary writing…
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Inaugural Thika Book Fair starts January 31
The Thika Book Fair with the theme “Reading and Sharing Information for a Better Future” will be hosted from January 31 – February 2, 2025. Thika is an industrial town and commerce hub in Kiambu County, Kenya, 42 kilometres, northeast of Nairobi, near the confluence of the Thika and Chania Rivers. It hasn’t been universally…
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Ethale Publishing wins Prémio Nacional das Indústrias Culturais e Criativas 2024
Ethale Publishing who won at the Prémio Nacional das Indústrias Culturais e Criativas 2024 in December has made a call out for support. Prémio Nacional das Indústrias Culturais e Criativas (English: Cultural and Creative Industries Award) has been awarded by the Mozambican Ministry of Culture and Tourism since 2023. The honours are given in music,…
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Festival du Livre Africain de Marrakech 2025 starts January 30.
Festival du Livre Africain de Marrakech 2025 returns to its Moroccan home from January 30 – February 2, 2025. Festival du Livre Africain de Marrakech (English: African Book Festival Marrakech) is a literary festival bringing together writers, thinkers, and intellectuals from the continent, its diasporas, and its descendants. It was founded by writer and visual…
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Ahmed Naji wins Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation 2024
Ahmed Naji’s novel Rotten Evidence won the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation 2024 on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. The Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize is an annual award for published translations from Arabic of full-length works of imaginative and creative writing of literary merit and general interest worth £3,000. Established in 2006 by Banipal Magazine…
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Kenyan Readathon 2025 to start in March.
The sixth edition of the Kenyan Readathon, in an announcement shared on Wednesday, January 15, is set to kick off in March. The Kenyan Readathon is a month-long reading marathon celebrating Kenyan literature started by book activist Lexa Lubanga in 2020. In that first year, the initiative asked Kenyans to read writers from their country…
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Marrakech English Book Festival 2025 starts January 17
The second edition of the Marrakech English Book Festival runs in the Moroccan city from January 17 – 19, 2024 The Marrakech English Book Festival is a literary festival with English as its primary language formed as a result of the partnership between the Marrakech English Book Association and the British Council in Morocco. It…
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Book Digest: Nnedi Okorafor, Afabwaje Kurian, A. K. Herman, Enajite Efemuaye
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books from Nnedi Okorafor, Afabwaje Kurian, A. K. Herman, and Enajite Efemuaye. Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor Publisher: William MorrowDate: January 14, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: English, Speculative FictionWhere to find it: Harper Collins, Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor is the author of multiple award-winning and New…
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Speculative fiction magazine Omenana turns 10
Omenana Magazine, a pioneer magazine publishing speculative fiction, celebrated its tenth anniversary with two magazines in December 2024. Omenana Magazine is a speculative fiction online magazine that has published stories by writers from Africa and the African diaspora since 2014. They focus on stories, art, and essays that explore the rich cultural heritage of the…
