Category: Awards
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Marlene L. Daut is Cundill History Prize 2025 finalist
Marlene L. Daut is one of the three Cundill History Prize 2025 finalists announced in Montreal, Canada, on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. The Cundill History Prize recognizes and rewards the best history writing in English, including translations. Founded by Peter Cundill and administered by McGill University in Montreal, Canada, it encourages informed public debate through…
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University of Johannesburg Prize 2025 winners announced
Barbara Boswell, Siphokazi Jonas, and Shubnum Khan were announced as the University of Johannesburg Prize 2025 winners on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. The University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing in English, also known as the UJ Prize, was instituted in 2006. It comprises a main prize and a debut prize, given annually for…
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NoViolet Bulawayo is Best of the Caine Prize winner
NoViolet Bulawayo was revealed to be the Best of the Caine Prize winner in London, UK, on Saturday, September 27, 2025. The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award that recognizes excellence in African storytelling. Presented for the best short story published in English by an African writer, it is named after…
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Otoniya J. Okot Bitek on Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize 2025 shortlist
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek is on the Canada’s Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize 2025 shortlist, announced on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. The Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize recognizes the best novel or short story collection by a Canadian author in the previous year. It is named in honour of the Writers’ Trust co-founders…
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Canada’s Giller Prize 2025 longlist announced
Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, André Alexis, and Ian Williams are on the Giller Prize 2025 longlist announced on Monday, September 15, 2025. The Giller Prize, founded by Jack Rabinovitch in 1994, awards $100,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel, graphic novel, or short story collection published in English. The award is named…
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Nathacha Appanah, Natasha Brown on Prix Femina 2025 Premier Selection
Nathacha Appanah and Natasha Brown are on the Prix Femina 2025 Premier Selection announced in Paris, France, on Tuesday, September 9, 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. It is decided each year by an exclusively female…
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Scotland’s Saltire Literary Awards 2025 longlists announced
Mae Diansangu and Selali Fiamanya are on Scotland’s Saltire Literary Awards 2025 longlists, announced on Friday, September 12, 2025. The Saltire Literary Awards were founded to recognise books which are either by “living authors of Scottish descent or residing in Scotland,” or which deal with “the work or life of a Scot or with a…
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US National Book Awards 2025 longlists announced
The US National Book Awards 2025 longlists have been announced; here are the writers of African descent in the running. 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 people’s literature. Some of the…
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Prix Renaudot 2025 Premier Selection announced
Nathacha Appanah and Kaouther Adimi are among the Prix Renaudot 2025 Premier Selection, announced in Paris, France, on Thursday, September 4, 2025. Prix Renaudot is a French literary prize awarded to the author of an outstanding original novel published in the previous year. It was created by ten art critics awaiting the results of the…
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Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards 2025 longlists announced.
The longlists for Namibia’s Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards 2025 were announced in Windhoek on Wednesday, September 10, 2025. The Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards were introduced to the African literary community in 2021 by Doek. Contributors to the Doek Magazine were entered in the categories of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual art for this…
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Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Literary Awards 2025 winners announced
Kodi-Anne Brown and Brandon Mc Ivor won at the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Literary Awards 2025 on Thursday, September 4, 2025. The Brooklyn Caribbean Literature Festival (BCLF) is a celebration of culture as expressed through the pen of the storyteller and the voice of the poet, executed as a series of readings of classic and…
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Karavan Press wins CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa 2025
The Karavan Press-published novel In Silence My Heart Speaks, written by Thobeka Yose, won the CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa 2025 in Algiers, Algeria, on Saturday, September 6, 2025. The CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa recognises the publisher of the best African fiction or non-fiction title. It is open to writers from all…
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Prix Goncourt 2025 Premiere Selection Announced
Nathacha Appanah, David Diop, and Yanick Lahens are on the Prix Goncourt 2025 Premiere Selection announced in Paris, France, on Wednesday, September 3, 2025. The Prix Goncourt is given by the French Académie Goncourt to the author of “the best and most imaginative prose work of the year”. While it only has a token prize…
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Abdulrazak Gurnah chairs Best of the Caine Prize jury
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, and Tony Tagoe are the jury for the Best of the Caine Prize, announced on Thursday, September 4, 2025 The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award that recognizes excellence in African storytelling. Presented for the best short story published in English by an African writer, it…
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Marlene L. Daut on Cundill History Prize 2025 shortlist
Marlene L. Daut is on the Cundill History Prize 2025 shortlist, announced in Montreal, Canada, on Tuesday, September 2, 2025. The Cundill History Prize recognizes and rewards the best history writing in English, including translations. Founded by Peter Cundill and administered by McGill University in Montreal, Canada, it encourages informed public debate through the wider…