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Olayinka Yaqub wins Awele Creative Trust Short Story Award 2023
Olayinka Yaqub’s short story The Weight of Duty was declared the winner of the Awele Creative Trust Award 2023 on Monday, April 22, 2024. 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…
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L.A. Times Book Prizes 2023 winners announced.
Tananarive Due, Airea D. Matthews, Shannon Sanders, and Amber McBride won in their categories at the L.A. Times Book Prizes 2023 announced on Friday, April 17, 2024. The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were founded by Art Seidenbaum, a Los Angeles Times book editor from 1978 to 1985, in 1980. They are awarded annually…
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Sabah Carrim wins Afritondo Short Story Prize 2024
Sabah Carrim’s short story Fading Mehndi was declared the winner of the Afritondo Short Story Prize 2024 on Friday, April 19, 2024. Afritondo, a platform that aims to connect with and tell the stories of African and black minority populations across the globe, is the organisation behind the Afritondo Short Story Prize. Previous winners have…
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Africa39: What have the writers been up to since 2014?
What happened to the Africa 39 writers who were supposed to define the trends that will mark the future development of literature in Africa? In 2014 for the second time, the continent hosted UNESCO World Book Capital in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. As part of the celebrations, Hay Festival in partnership with local World Book Capital…
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Jhalak Prize 2024 shortlists announced.
The shortlists for the UK’s Jhalak Prize were announced on Thursday, April 18, 2024. These are the writers of African descent in the running. The Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour is an annual literary prize awarded to British or British-resident BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) writers created…
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Ana Paula Maia wins Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024
Ana Paula Maia’s novel Of Cattle and Men was declared the winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024 in London, UK on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses is an annual British literary prize founded by the author Neil Griffiths. It rewards fiction published by UK and…
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Book Digest: Percival Everett, Efua Traore, Ayi Renaud Dossavi, Khadijetou Sall
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Percival Everett, Efua Traore, Ayi Renaud Dossavi, and Khadejatou Sall. James by Percival Everett Publisher: DoubledayDate: March 19, 2024Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Penguin Random House Percival Everett Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at…
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Ishion Hutchinson on Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2024 shortlist
Ishion Hutchinson’s poetry collection School of Instructions is in the shortlist for Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2024 announced on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The Griffin Poetry Prize is the world’s largest international prize for a first edition single collection of poetry written in or translated into English. The Canada-based prize was founded by businessman and…
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Chika Unigwe to chair Caine Prize for African Writing 2024 jury
Chika Unigwe is the chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2024 jury announced on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Other jury members are Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Julianknxx, Tumi Molekane, and Ayesha Harruna Attah. The Caine Prize for African Writing is awarded annually to an African writer published in English for an outstanding short story…
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Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2024 shortlists announced.
The shortlists for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2024 were announced on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Here are the African and Caribbean writers in the running. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction in English in the regions of Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and…
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Kaduna Book & Arts Festival 2024 guests revealed.
The guests who will feature at the Kaduna Book & Arts Festival 2022 in Kaduna, Nigeria from May 1 – 4, 2024 have been announced. The Nigerian state of Kaduna introduced the Kaduna Book & Arts Festival to its cultural calendar as part of its centenary celebrations in 2017. Headlined by award-winning author Leila Aboulela,…
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Evaristo Prize for African Poetry 2024 shortlist announced.
The shortlist for the Evaristo Prize for African Poetry 2024 was announced on Monday, April 15, 2024. The Brunel International African Poetry Prize, founded by Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, was started in 2012 to revitalise African poetry and encourage a new generation of poets to get an international platform. Previous winners have been Warsan…
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Tuzo Nyerere 2024 winners announced in Dar es Salaam
Mohamed Omar Juma, Laura Pettie Kisswaka, and Blandina Isabela Lucas won in their categories in a ceremony at Tuzo Nyerere 2024 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Saturday, April 13, 2024. President Julius Nyerere, Tanzania’s founding president from 1964–1985, was famous for writing numerous political texts like Ujamaa (1968) and Freedom and Socialism (1969). He…
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Prix Ethiophile 2024 shortlist announced.
The shortlist for Prix Ethiophile 2024 were announced in Paris, France on Sunday, April 14, 2024. Prix Ethiophile is an annual literary prize founded in 2015 that rewards French-speaking, African, or Caribbean texts. The prize worth €1,000 alternates between the novel, poetry, theatre, and essay genres. Previous winners of the award have been Valérie Cadignan,…
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Guggenheim Fellows 2024 announced
The Guggenheim Fellows 2024 were announced on Thursday, April 11, 2024. Here are the writers and poets of African descent on the list. Guggenheim Fellowships are grants awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those “who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” The fellowship…
