Category: Mali
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SGDL Grands Prix 2024 first selection announced.
Lisette Lombe and Diadié Dembele are on the first selection for Societe Des Gens De Lettre’s Grands Prix 2024 announced on Monday, April 29, 2024. Societe Des Gens De Lettre (English: The Society of People of Letters) (SGDL) is a French association for the promotion of law and the defence of the interests of authors.…
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Rentrée Littéraire du Mali 2024 starts February 20
Rentrée Littéraire du Mali 2024 runs in venues around Bamako, Mali from February 20 – 24, 2024. The festival theme is “The Africa of Living Together.” Rentrée Littéraire du Mali (Literary Return of Mali) is a festival of books, words, and ideas hosted in Bamako, Mali since 2008. It invites writers, academics, researchers, and artists…
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Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2024 finalists announced.
The finalists for Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2024 were announced on Wednesday, December 13, 2023. Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie (English: Five Continents Prize of the Francophonie) was established by the International Organization of the Francophonie in 2001. It is aimed at highlighting literary talents reflecting the expression of cultural…
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Rentrée Littéraire du Mali 2023 prizes awarded.
Three prizes were handed out at the closing ceremony of Rentrée Littéraire du Mali 2023 prizes in Bamako, Mali on February 25, 2023. Rentrée Littéraire du Mali (Literary Return of Mali) is a festival of books, words, and ideas hosted annually in Bamako, Mali. It invites writers, academics, researchers, and artists from five continents and…
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Rentrée Littéraire du Mali 2023 starts February 21
Rentrée Littéraire du Mali 2023 runs in venues around Bamako, Mali from February 21 – 25, 2023. The festival theme is “Decompartmentalising Africa.” Rentrée Littéraire du Mali (Literary Return of Mali) is a festival of books, words, and ideas hosted in Bamako, Mali. It invites writers, academics, researchers and artists from five continents and the…
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Diadié Dembélé wins Prix littéraire de la vocation 2022
Diadié Dembélé’s Le Duel Des Grands-Mères was declared the winner of Prix de la Vocation 2022 on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. The Prix Littéraire de la Vocation (English: Literary Vocation Award) was established by the Marcel-Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation to support a young writer working aged 18 to 30 years in 1976. Some of the previous winners…
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Rentrée Littéraire du Mali 2022 ends with awards ceremony.
Nassuf Djailani,Aïcha Yatabary, Drissa Diakite, and Kadi Diarra won awards at the Rentrée Littéraire du Mali 2022 in Bamako, Mali on Saturday, May 14, 2022. La Rentrée Littéraire du Mali (Literary Return of Mali), first held in 2008, is a festival of books, words, and ideas hosted in Bamako, Mali. It offers a platform for…
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Rentrée Littéraire du Mali awards 2021 winners announced.
Khalil Diallo, Ibrahim Lanséni Coulibaly, and Amadou Chab Touré were announced the winners of La Rentrée Littéraire du Mali 2021 awards in Bamako, Mali on March 20, 2021. La Rentrée Littéraire du Mali (Literary Return of Mali) is a feast of books, words, and ideas for four days in Bamako, Mali since 2008. It offers…
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Grand Prix des Associations Littéraires 2019 finalists announced.
The finalists for the Grand Prix des Associations Littéraires 2019 were announced on May 7, 2020. The Grand Prix des Associations Littéraires (Grand Prix of Literary Associations) were launched in Cameroon in 2013. They were then defined as bilingual English-and-French literary prizes awarded on the proposals of literary associations, especially in the Research and Belles-Lettres…
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Orange Book Award in Africa 2020 finalists announced.
The finalists for the Orange Book Award in Africa 2020 were announced on March 5, 2020. The Orange Book in Africa Award was launched in November 2018 to reward a fiction text written in French by an African writer from a publishing house based on the continent. The prize is organised by the African Cultural…
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Seven African books shortlisted for The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2018
Eight African writers are in the running with seven books on cooking published in Africa at The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2018. They are Yemisi Arbisala, Muriel Emekunle Davies, Ednah Rosen, David & Tamminay Otoo, Jasmine Macharia, and Nico Verster. The Gourmand Awards started in 1995 for cookbooks and wine books at Frankfurt Book Fair…
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A snapshot of the Time of the Writer 2015
It was all happening when a whole bunch of writers converged in Durban, South Africa on 16-21 March. This bunch of writers or is it a gaggle of writers or a bar of writers or wit of writers or a… Anyway, these writers from all corners of the continent were joined by a few from…