Category: Cameroon
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Salon du Livre de Douala 2023 starts on November 9
Salon du Livre de Douala 2023 runs for the second time in the Cameroonian town from November 9 – 11, 2023. Salon du Livre de Douala (English: Douala Book Fair), a huge meeting of the stakeholders at the Akwa Festival Hall, first ran in the Cameroonian town in 2021. That event organised by Douala Urban…
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Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2023 longlist announced.
The longlist for the Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2023 was announced on Monday, September 19, 2023. The Kendeka Prize for Africa Literature is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short story either fiction or creative non-fiction. Previous winners of the prize founded by Kenyan writer and publisher Andrew Maina have been Jenny Robson…
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Translations: Cheluchi Onyemelukwe, Zukiswa Wanner, Djaili Amadou Amal, Sharon Dodua Otoo
Translations for books by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe, Zukiswa Wanner, Djaili Amadou Amal, and Sharon Dodua Otoo are available for your reading pleasure. Book: Adas RaumOriginal Title: Adas RaumAuthor: Sharon Dodua OtooTranslator: Hitoko SuzukiPublisher: HakusuishaPublishing Date: March 29, 2023Language: German to JapaneseWhere to Find it: Click here. Adas Raum The long-awaited first novel from Ingeborg Bachmann Prize-winning…
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Djaïli Amadou Amal wins Grand Prix Littéraire du Mont Cameroun.
Djaïli Amadou Amal’s novel Coeur du Sahel was named the winner of Grand Prix Littéraire du Mont Cameroun in Yaoundé, Cameroon on May 18, 2023. L’association des poètes et écrivains du Cameroun (APEC) (English: The Association of Poets and Writers of Cameroon) started a new award called Grand Prix Littéraire du Mont Cameroun. Its premise…
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Book Digest: Chika Unigwe, Djaïli Amadou Amal, Breanne Mc Ivor, Peace Adzo Medie
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Djaïli Amadou Amal, Breanne Mc Ivor, Peace Adzo Medie, and Chika Unigwe. The God of Good Looks by Breanne Mc Ivor Publisher: William MorrowDate: May 16, 2023Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Click here. Breanne Mc Ivor Breanne…
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Lire à Douala 2023 starts March 26
Lire à Douala 2023 is set to be hosted in the Cameroonian city of Douala from March 26 – 30, 2023. The festival theme is “literature connects and repairs”. “Lire à Douala” (English: reading in Doula) is an association whose objective is to promote reading, written expression and the development of literary culture, in particular…
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African Festival of Emerging Writers 2023 for Cameroon in March
The African Festival of Emerging Writers 2023 will be hosted in Yaounde and Bafia, Cameroon from March 17 – 19, 2023. Clijec Mag, founded in 2015, is a literary magazine devoted to the analysis and exploration of the African literary landscape. In 2016, the organisation started hosting the African Festival of Emerging Writers where writers…
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Imbolo Mbue is Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2022 winner.
Imbolo Mbue’s Puissions-nous vivre longtemps was declared the winner of Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2022 on December 21, 2022. Prix Littéraire Les Afriques is awarded annually to an African or writer of African descent who has written fiction highlighting a human, societal, ideological, political, cultural, economic, or historical issue related to Africa or its diaspora.…
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Djaili Amadou Amal wins Prix des Grands Monts 2022
Djaili Amadou Amal’s Les Impatientes won the Prix des Grands Monts 2022 in Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise, France on September 24, 2022. Prix des Grands Monts is a literary prize set up to highlight the best in literature by Com’MonLy, the library network of the Monts du Lyonnais since 2020. For the 3rd edition, they opted to focus…
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Ernis (Lontsi Clémence) wins Prix Voix d’Afriques
Comme une reine by Ernis (Lontsi Clémence) was declared the winner of Prix Voix d’Afriques 2022 on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. Prix Voix d’Afriques is a literary award aimed at bringing young French-language authors and authors from the African continent first hosted in 2020. It is aimed at highlighting new African literary voices, novels reflecting…
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African Writers Awards 2022 longlists announced
The longlists for the African Writers Awards, African Teen Writers Awards, and the Wakini Kuria Prize for Children’s Literature were announced on September 1, 2022. The African Writers Awards were conceived by the African Writers Development Trust to shed light on some of the best emerging writing talents on the continent. Some previous winners have…
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Prix Ivoire for African Literature 2022 finalists announced
The finalists for Prix Ivoire for African Literature in French, the leading literary prize from Cote D’Ivoire, were announced on August 13, 2022. The Prix Ivoire is an award created by Akwaba Culture, an Ivorian law association in 2008. Open to writers from Africa and its Diasporas, the winner gets a two million CFA francs…
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Osvalde Lewat wins Prix Kourouma 2022 in Geneva.
Osvalde Lewat’s Les Aquatiques was announced the winner of Prix Kourouma 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland on May 20, 2022. Ahmadou Kourouma was a legendary Ivorian novelist of many titles including Les Soleils des indépendances (1968), Le diseur de verité (1972), and the most famous Allah n’est pas oblige (2000) which was translated to Allah Is…
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Prix Voix d’Afriques 2022 finalists announced
The finalists for Prix Voix d’Afriques 2022 were announced on Friday, April 15, 2022. Prix Voix d’Afriques is a literary award aimed at bringing young French-language authors and authors from the African continent first hosted in 2020. It is aimed at highlighting new African literary voices, novels reflecting the situation of a country, political, economic,…
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Translations: Scholastique Mukasonga, Mutt-Lon, Imbolo Mbue, Sulaiman Addonia
Translations for books by Scholastique Mukasonga, Mutt-Lon, Imbolo Mbue, and Sulaiman Addonia are currently available for your reading pleasure. Book: Frau auf bloBen FüBenOriginal Title: La Femme Aux Pieds NusAuthor: Scholastique MukasongaTranslator: Gudrun and Otto HonkePublisher: Peter Hammer VerlagPublishing Date: March 8, 2022Language: French to German Scholastique Mukasonga Scholastique Mukasonga is a French Rwandan author…