Category: Germany
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African Book Festival Berlin 2025: Book Clubs invited.
The African Book Festival Berlin 2025 has invited African-based book clubs to the German capital from July 18 – 20, 2025. The leading African writers, poets, and thinkers on the continent and in the diaspora have converged on Berlin, Germany for the African Book Festival since the first edition in 2018. It has quietly become…
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African Book Festival Berlin announces 2025 curator
Writer and spoken word artist Ivana Akotowaa Ofori is the curator of the African Book Festival Berlin which runs in the German capital from July 18 – 20, 2025. Festival organisers also stated that the theme will be ‘In Other Wor(l)ds’, when the announcement was made on Monday. The leading African writers, poets, and thinkers…
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Claudia Rankine, James Noël are DAAD Berlin Artist-in-Residents 2025
Claudia Rankine and James Noël were named DAAD Berlin Artist-in-Residents 2025 on July 11, 2024. The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program has been awarded internationally highly regarded fellowships since 1963. Over 1000 outstanding international visual artists, authors, filmmakers, composers, and sound artists have been invited to live and work in Berlin. As part of its long-term support…
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African Book Festival Berlin announces new board
The African Book Festival Berlin is a project conceived and run by the InterKontinental literary agency in the German capital since 2018. It has featured readings, discussions, music, poetry performances, and interactive, and modern event formats with many leading African writers working today. It has run in themes like the Queer Edition (2024), Yesterday. Today.…
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Book Digest: Léonora Miano, Duduzile Noeleen Ngwenya, Esinam Bediako, Evelyne Waithira Müller
In our regular Book Digest segment, we spotlight new books from Léonora Miano, Duduzile Noeleen Ngwenya, Esinam Bediako, and Evelyne Waithira Müller. you get better with love by Duduzile Noeleen Ngwenya Publisher: Pan Macmillan South AfricaDate: October 8, 2024Genre: PoetryLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Pan Macmillan South Africa Duduzile Noeleen Ngwenya Duduzile Noeleen Ngwenya is…
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Book Digest: Eugen Bacon, Melanie Raabe, Monique Roffey, David Mandessi Diop
In our regular Book Digest segment, we wrap up book news for our readers with books from Eugen Bacon, Melanie Raabe, Monique Roffey, and David Mandessi Diop. A Place Between Waking and Forgetting by Eugen BaconPublisher: Raw Dog Screaming PressDate: September 19, 2024Genre: Fiction, short storiesLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Raw Dog Screaming Press Eugen…
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Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin partly curated by Helon Habila
The guests for the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, partly curated by Helon Habila, which runs from September 5 – 14, 2024 have been announced. The Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin (English: International Literature Festival Berlin) was founded by Ulrich Schreiber who directed it until 2023 when Lavinia Frey replaced him. Its broad stylistic and thematic spectrum brings literary…
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Germany’s Afrolution Festival 2024 starts June 27
The Afrolution Festival 2024 with the theme “African/-Diasporic Pluriverses I.” is set to run in Berlin, Germany from June 27 – 30, 2024. Afrolution is a festival with literature at its core, organised by Each One, Teach One, that has hosted many of Africa’s and Afro-German leading writers in Berlin, Germany since 2018. The event…
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Black Writers Book Festival for Hamburg, Germany
The Black Writers Book Festival runs for the first time in Hamburg, Germany from June 7 – 9, 2024. In June there will be a new festival for Black writers to participate in Germany called the Black Writers Book Festival. Its mission is to showcase and promote established and up-and-coming Black writers in spaces created…
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Percival Everett, Scholastique Mukasonga on Internationaler Literaturpreis 2024 shortlist
Percival Everett and Scholastique Mukasonga are on the shortlist for Germany’s Internationaler Literaturpreis 2024 announced on Thursday, May 30, 2024. Internationaler Literaturpreis (English: International Literature Award) is a German literary award for international prose translated into German for the first time. It has been awarded annually by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the…
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Book Digest: Olumide Popoola, Albert Kokolomami, Dorcy Rugamba, Sarah Dass
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Olumide Popoola, Albert Kokolomami, Dorcy Rugamba, and Sarah Dass. Like Water Like Sea by Olumide Popoola Publisher: Cassava Republic PressDate: May 9, 2024Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Olumide Popoola Olumide Popoola is a London-based Nigerian German writer…
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Book Digest: Niq Mhlongo, Yandé Seck, Mélio Tinga, Kennedy Ryan
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Niq Mhlongo, Yandé Seck, Mélio Tinga, and Kennedy Ryan. Weiße Wolken By Yandé Seck Publisher: Kiepenheuer & WitschDate: February 8, 2024Genre: FictionLanguage: GermanWhere to find it: Kiepenheuer & Witsch Yandé Seck Yandé Seck was born in Heidelberg in…
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African Book Festival Berlin 2024 Queer Edition
The African Book Festival Berlin 2024, running from June 28 – 30, 2024, has been named the “Queer Edition.” The African Book Festival Berlin has been happening in the German city since 2018. Apart from the two Covid years, the festival has run to much success with many new markets for African writers being introduced.…
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Helon Habila is Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin 2024 Curator in Residence
Helon Habila will be the Curator in Residence of the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin 2024 which runs in Germany from September 5 – 18, 2024. The Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin (English: International Literature Festival Berlin) (ILB) was founded by Ulrich Schreiber who directed it until 2023 when he was replaced by Lavinia Frey. Its broad stylistic and…
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila wins Preis der Literaturhäuser 2024
Fiston Mwanza Mujila was declared the winner of Germany’s Preis der Literaturhäuser 2024 on Wednesday, February 7, 2024. Preis der Literaturhäuser (English: Literature Houses Prize) is a German literary prize awarded annually to authors by program managers of literary houses during the Leipziger Buchmesse (Leipzig book fair) for exceptional text and presentation skills. Some of…