Category: Awards
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Theresa Lola wins Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2025
Theresa Lola’s poetry collection was declared the winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2025 on Tuesday, October 28, 2025. The Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry is awarded by Arrowsmith Press, in conjunction with Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and The Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. It is awarded to a full-length book of poems by…
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Nathacha Appanah is Prix Goncourt 2025 finalist
Nathacha Appanah’s novel La nuit au Cœur is among the Prix Goncourt 2025 finalists announced in Paris, France, on Tuesday, October 28, 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 of…
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Forward Prizes for Poetry 2025 winners announced
Isabelle Baafi and Griot Gabriel won in their categories at the Forward Prizes for Poetry 2025 ceremony in London, UK, on Sunday, October 26, 2025. The Forward Prizes for Poetry were founded by William Sieghart to celebrate excellence in poetry and increase its audience in 1992. There are four prizes on offer in the Forward…
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South African Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced.
The South African Literary Awards 2025 shortlists were announced in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Monday, October 27, 2025. The South African Literary Awards, popularly known as the SALAs, organised by wRite associates, have honoured many authors since they were founded in 2005. Winning writers and poets have included Es’kia Mphahlele, Nadine Gordimer, Miriam Tlali, Lauretta…
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Premio Oceanos 2025 finalists announced
Mia Couto, Francisco Guita Jr, and José Eduardo Agualusa are among the Premio Oceanos 2025 finalists announced in São Paulo, Brazil, on Thursday, October 23, 2025. Prêmio Oceanos 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…
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Omotara James wins at Lambda Literary Awards 2025
Omotara James’ poetry collection Song of My Softening won at the Lambda Literary Awards 2025 in New York, USA on Sunday, October 5, 2025. The Lambda Literary Awards, or the “Lammys,” as they are known, are an award of Lambda Literary, the oldest and largest literary arts organization advancing Lesbian, Gay, Trans, and Queer (LGBTQ)…
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Future Awards Africa Prize 2025 finalists announced.
Here are the literature finalists of the Future Awards Africa Prize 2025 announced in Lagos, Nigeria, on Wednesday, October 22, 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 in…
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Ignyte Awards 2025 winners announced
The Ignyte Awards 2025 winners, the fifth edition of the award scheme, were announced on Sunday, October 12, 2025. Fiyah is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine featuring stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora based in the USA, founded in 2016. In 2021, they hosted FIYAHCON for Black, Indigenous, and People of…
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Nathacha Appanah is Prix Femina 2025 finalist
Nathacha Appanah’s novel La nuit au cœur was declared a Prix Femina 2025 finalist in Paris, France, on Tuesday, October 21, 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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Zora Legacy Awards 2025 winners announced
The winners of the Zora Legacy Awards 2025, formerly the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Awards, were announced on Friday, October 17, 2025. The Zora Legacy Awards are a rebrand of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, organised by the Hurston/Wright Foundation, named after US African American literary icons Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright. Honouring the best in…
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Prix Voix d’Afriques 2025 finalists announced
The finalists of Prix Voix d’Afriques 2025 were announced by the jury chair, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, on Saturday, October 18, 2025. Voix d’Afriques (English: Voices of Africa) is a literary prize intended to bring out young French-language authors from the African continent. Initiated by JC Lattès, RFI, and the Cité Internationale des Arts in 2020,…
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Morland Writing Scholarships 2025 shortlist announced.
The Morland Writing Scholarships 2025 shortlists were announced in London, UK, today, Friday, October 17, 2025. The Morland Writing Scholarships for African Writers, popularly referred to as the Morland Writing Scholarship, is an opportunity to allow writers to finish a manuscript. In the past, the scholarship has been accorded to writers from across the continent,…
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Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced.
The shortlists for Namibia’s Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards 2025 were announced in Windhoek on Friday, October 17, 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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Prix Médicis 2025 Deuxièmes Sélections revealed
Nathacha Appanah and Natasha Brown are on the Prix Médicis 2025 Deuxièmes Sélections announced in Paris, France, on Thursday, October 16, 2025. In 1958, French citizens Gala Barbisan and Jean-Pierre Giraudoux founded Prix Médicis to recognise a novel, a story, a collection of short stories by an author who does not yet have notoriety corresponding…
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US National Book Awards 2025 finalists announced
Bryan Washington and Omar El Akkad are among the US National Book Awards 2025 finalists announced in New York on Tuesday, October 7, 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 people’s…