Category: Awards
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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…
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Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2026 judges announced
Fred Khumalo, Maxine Beneba Clarke, and Sharma Taylor are on the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2026 jury, announced on Friday, August 29, 2025. Enter your short story here; your deadline is November 1. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction in English in the regions of Africa,…
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NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2025 shortlist announced
The NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2025 shortlist was announced in Lagos, Nigeria, on Thursday, August 28, 2025. The Nigeria Prize for Literature, worth US$100,000, has celebrated Nigerian authors in the four genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and children’s literature since 2004. Sponsored annually by oil firm NLNG, some of the winners have been Familoni…
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South Africa National Arts and Culture Awards 2025 winners announced
Here are the winners in the literary categories at the South Africa National Arts and Culture Awards 2025, announced in Johannesburg on Sunday, August 24, 2025.. The National Arts and Culture Awards, hosted by the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, recognises excellence across South Africa’s creative industries. The new awards are dedicated to honouring…
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Ikechukwu Henry wins inaugural Ama Ata Aidoo Award
Ikechukwu Henry was declared the winner of the Ama Ata Aidoo Award/Ma Kẹkẹ Short Story Contest at the Ghana International Book Fair 2025 on Saturday, August 23, 2025. The Ma Kẹkẹ Short Story Contest × The Ama Ata Aidoo Award was established to celebrate creativity, encourage emerging voices, and unite African literature across borders. It…
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Premio Oceanos 2025 semi finalists announced
The Premio Oceanos 2025 semi-finalists were announced in São Paulo, Brazil, on Tuesday, August 26, 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 the…