Category: Awards
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Grenada Writers’ Prize 2025: Inaugural Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for the inaugural Grenada Writers’ Prize was announced in St. George’s, Grenada, on Monday, November 24, 2025. The Grenada Writers’ Prize is a new national short story competition open to residents of Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique. This initiative, supported by the Grenada Office of Creative Affairs and other sponsors, will award winners…
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Morland Writing Scholarships 2025 Winners Announced.
The four recipients of the Morland Writing Scholarships 2025 were announced in London, UK, on Saturday, November 22, 2025. The Morland Writing Scholarships for African Writers, popularly referred to as the Morland Writing Scholarship, provides financial support so writers can finish a manuscript. In the past, the scholarship has been accorded to writers from across…
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Omar El Akkad Wins At US National Book Award 2025
Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This won at the US National Book Awards 2025 on Wednesday, November 19, 2025. The US National Book Awards are literary awards from the Northern American nation’s National Book Foundation, established in 1936. They are conferred on fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young…
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African Speculative Fiction Society Nommo Awards 2025 Winners Announced.
The African Speculative Fiction Society announced the winners of the 2025 Nommo Awards on Thursday, November 20, during the opening ceremony of the Aké Arts and Book Festival in Lagos, Nigeria. The African Speculative Fiction Society was founded to celebrate speculative fiction genres of magical realism, Sci-Fi, horror, and graphic novels in 2016. In the…
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Dublin International Literary Award 2026 Nominations Announced
The nominees and jury for the Dublin International Literary Awards 2026 were unveiled in Dublin on Wednesday, November 19, 2025. The annual award, sponsored by Dublin City Council, celebrates excellence in world literature by honoring a novel written in or translated into English. The award, worth €100,000, has a unique nomination process that involves libraries…
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Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025: First Selection Announced
The first selection for Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025 was announced on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, featuring authors Jesmyn Ward, Matthieu Niango, and Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin. The prize, which includes a €5,000 award, honors an author—French or foreign—whose work questions modern methods of fighting oppression or represents an act of resistance itself. It was…
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South African Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
The winners of the South African Literary Awards 2025 were announced at the Roodepoort Theatre and Museum in Johannesburg on Tuesday, November 11, 2024. The South African Literary Awards, popularly known as the SALAs, organised by wRite associates, have honoured many authors since 2005. Winning writers and poets have included Es’kia Mphahlele, Nadine Gordimer, Miriam…
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Association of Nigerian Authors Announces 2025 Award Winners
The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) announced the winners of its 2025 literary awards on Saturday, November 1, during the organization’s 44th annual convention in Abuja. Founded in 1981 by the legendary author Chinua Achebe, ANA is dedicated to promoting Nigerian literature and supporting the interests of writers across the nation. The annual convention, a…
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Ana Maria Gonçalves joins the Brazilian Academy of Letters
Ana Maria Gonçalves was inducted into the Brazilian Academy of Letters in a ceremony in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, November 7, 2025. Academia Brasileira de Letras (English: Brazilian Academy of Letters) is a non-profit literary society founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1897. Inspired by the Académie Française, it was established by 40 writers…
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Radiate Rwanda Literary Excellence Awards 2025 Winners Announced
The winners of the 2025 Radiate Rwanda Literary Excellence Awards were unveiled at a ceremony in Kigali on Friday, November 7, celebrating the finest voices in Rwandan and African literature. Organized by Bridgevision, the awards aim to spotlight and honour exceptional literary talent across five distinct categories. The event brought together authors, publishers, and cultural…
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Grenada Writers’ Prize 2025 Announces Inaugural Longlist
The longlist for the inaugural Grenada Writers’ Prize was announced in St Georges, Grenada, on Monday, November 10, 2025. This new national short story competition is open to residents of Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique. The prize, part of the annual Grenada Book Festival, features two categories: one for adults (21+) and another for young…
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Adedayo Agarau wins at Future Awards Africa Prize 2025
Adedayo Agarau won in the literature category at Nigeria’s Future Awards Africa Prize 2025 in Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday, November 8, 2025. The Future Awards Africa, also known as The Future Awards, are a set of awards given by The Future Project, a social enterprise set up with a commitment to human and capital development…
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Sharjah International Book Fair 2025 Award Winners Announced
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu and Abdelaziz Ait Bensalah were among the winners of the Sharjah International Book Fair 2025 Awards, announced on Thursday, November 6, 2025. The Sharjah International Book Fair is one of the world’s largest cultural events, featuring panel discussions, keynote lectures, book launches, a publishers’ conference, and a major rights marketplace where publishers…
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Véronique Tadjo wins Prix Ivoire for Francophone African Literature 2025
Véronique Tadjo’s novel Je Remercie la Nuit won Prix Ivoire for Francophone African Literature 2025 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire on Thursday, November 6, 2025. Prix Ivoire for African Literature in Francophone Expression, or simply Prix Ivoire, is a literary award that rewards works published or translated into French relating to African Literature, produced by African…
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Nathacha Appanah wins Prix Femina 2025
Nathacha Appanah’s novel La nuit au cœur was announced the winner of Prix Femina 2025 in Paris, France, on Monday, November 3, 2025. The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse (today known as Femina) in 1904. Decided annually by an exclusively female jury, they…