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Writing Africa Needs Your Help!
Writing Africa, the leading archive Preserving & Promoting African and Black Literature, has today started a campaign to ensure that it survives the current rough economic times.
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Afritondo Short Story Prize 2025 shortlist announced
The Afritondo Short Story Prize 2025 shortlist was announced on Friday, April 18, 2025. Afritondo, a platform that aims to connect with and tell the stories of African and black minority populations worldwide, is the organisation behind the Afritondo Short Story Prize. Previous award winners, which celebrate the best short story writing by writers of…
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Premio Oceanos 2025 first selections announced
The Premio Oceanos 2025 first selections were announced in São Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Oceanos-Prêmio de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa (English: Oceanos-Prize for Literature in the Portuguese Language) is a Brazilian literary award for poetry and prose founded in 2003. In the first years, only works by Brazilian writers were eligible for…
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Premio Gregor von Rezzori 2025 longlist announced
Abigail Assor, Teju Cole, and Ferdia Lennon are on the Premio Gregor von Rezzori 2025 longlist announced on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Gregor von Rezzori was a novelist, memoirist, screenwriter, and author of radio plays, actor, journalist, visual artist, art critic, and art collector. He passed away in 1998, and his widow, Beatrice Monti della…
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Pen America Literary Awards 2025 finalists announced
The Pen America Literary Awards 2025 finalists were announced in New York, USA, on Thursday, April 10, 2025. Here are the writers of African descent who made the cut. PEN America is an organisation that works to defend and celebrate free expression in the United States through the advancement of literature and human rights since…
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Book Digest: Gaelle Belem, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Patrice Caldwell, Zainab Uche Imam
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books from Gaelle Belem, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Patrice Caldwell, and Zainab Uche Imam. Sud Sauvage by Gaelle Belem Publisher: Editions GallimardDate: April 3, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: FrenchWhere to find it: Editions Gallimard Gaelle Belem Gaëlle Bélem is a French writer of Réunionese extraction known for the prize-winning coming-of-age novel…
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025 winners announced
Latifa Labsir and Dr. Said Laouadi won in their categories at the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2025 in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is presented to Arab writers, intellectuals, publishers, and young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab cultural,…
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Amar Ingrachen on Prix Voltaire 2025 shortlist
Algerian publisher Amar Ingrachen is on the International Publishers Association’s Prix Voltaire 2025 shortlist announced in Paris, France, on Friday, April 11, 2025. The International Publishers Association (IPA) Prix Voltaire is given to publishers who provide authors with the tools to disseminate their written ideas, assuming the same risks as the writers themselves. It honours…
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Awele Creative Trust Short Story Award 2024 shortlist announced
The Awele Creative Trust Short Story Award 2024 shortlist was announced on Saturday, April 12, 2025. The Awele Creative Trust is a non-profit organisation created to provide an enabling environment and platform for creative young persons, founded by Chika Unigwe. Its annual prize, the Awele Creative Trust Award, rewards a short story of up to…
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Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2025 shortlists announced
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2025 shortlists were announced in London, UK, on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. Here are the writers of African descent who made the shortlist. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction in English in the regions of Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean,…
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Tuzo Nyerere 2025 winners announced
Tuzo Nyerere 2025 winners were announced in a ceremony in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Monday, April 14, 2025. Tuzo ya Taifa ya Mwalimu Nyerere ya Uandishi Bunifu (English: Mwalimu Nyerere National Award for Creative Writing) or simply Tuzo Nyerere (The Nyerere Prize) is a national literary award that recognizes and supports creative writing in…
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Haliru Ali Musa wins Alexander Nderitu Prize For World Literature 2024
Haliru Ali Musa won the Alexander Nderitu Prize for World Literature 2024 on Thursday, April 10, 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 Alexander…
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Hubert Haddad wins Prix Littéraire Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025
Hubert Haddad’s novel La Symphonie Atlantique won Prix Littéraire Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025 in Lyon, France on Tuesday, April 8, 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,…
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Peace Adzo Medie wins Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2024
Peace Adzo Medie’s novel Sa Seule épouse was declared the Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2024 winner on Monday, April 7, 2025. 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…
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Amira Ghenim wins Prix Fragonard de Littérature étrangère 2025
Amira Ghenim’s novel Le Désastre de la Maison des Notables won Prix Fragonard de Littérature étrangère 2025 in Paris, France on Thursday, April 3, 2025. Prix Fragonard de Littérature étrangère (English: Fragonard Prize for Foreign Literature) is a French literary prize that rewards a book written by a woman, translated into French and published in…
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Book Digest: Hellen Akeyo, Emily Khalayi Wekulo, Makenzi K.G, Michael Oluoch
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books from Hellen Akeyo, Emily Khalayi Wekulo, Makenzi K.G, and Michael Oluoch. Princess Njinga – Bane of the Portuguese by Emily Khalayi Wekulo Publisher: Storymoja PublishersDate: March 28, 2025Genre: Creative Nonfiction, Young AdultLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Storymoja Publishers Twins Lara and Moises time travel back to the…
