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Ananda Devi to headline Neustadt Lit Fest 2024
Ananda Devi will headline the Neustadt Lit Fest 2024 to be held at the University of Oklahoma from October 21 – 23, 2024. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award sponsored by the United States University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, World Literature Today. The prize for adult literature is…
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Reena, Portia Subran win Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2024
Reena (Africa) and Portia Subran (Caribbean) won in their regions at the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2024 on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction in English in the regions of Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. Each of…
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Sabah Carrim wins Afritondo Short Story Prize 2024
Sabah Carrim’s short story Fading Mehndi was declared the winner of the Afritondo Short Story Prize 2024 on Friday, April 19, 2024. Afritondo, a platform that aims to connect with and tell the stories of African and black minority populations across the globe, is the organisation behind the Afritondo Short Story Prize. Previous winners have…
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Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2024 shortlists announced.
The shortlists for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2024 were announced on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Here are the African and Caribbean writers in the running. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction in English in the regions of Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and…
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Afritondo Short Story Prize 2024 shortlist announced.
The shortlist for the Afritondo Short Story Prize 2024 was announced on Friday, March 29, 2024. Afritondo, a platform that aims to connect with and tell the stories of African and black minority populations across the globe, is the organisation behind the Afritondo Short Story Prize. Previous winners have been Alex Kadiri, Howard Meh-Buh Maximus,…
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Afritondo Short Story Prize 2024 longlist announced.
The longlist for the Afritondo Short Story Prize 2024 was announced on Friday, February 23, 2024. Afritondo, a platform that aims to connect with and tell the stories of African and black minority populations across the globe, is the organisation behind the Afritondo Short Story Prize. Previous winners have been Alex Kadiri, Howard Meh-Buh Maximus,…
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Ananda Devi wins Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2024
Ananda Devi was declared the winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2024 on Tuesday, October 24, 2023. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award sponsored by the United States University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, World Literature Today. The prize for adult literature is awarded to a living…
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Ananda Devi receives Prix de la langue Française 2023.
Ananda Devi was awarded Prix de la Langue Française 2023 on Thursday, October 19, 2023. Prix de la langue Française is a French language prize that distinguishes a personality from the literary, artistic or scientific world, whose work contributes significantly to illustrating the quality and beauty of the French language. An initiative of the city…
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US National Translation Awards 2023 shortlists announced.
Monique Ilboudo, Iman Mersal, and Ananda Devi are on the shortlists for the US National Translation Awards 2023 announced on Wednesday, October 11, 2023. The National Translation Award is awarded annually in poetry and in prose to literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating the artistic force…
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Morland Writing Scholarships 2023 shortlists announced.
The shortlists for the Morland Writing Scholarships 2023 were announced on Thursday, October 12, 2023. 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. Scholars writing fiction receive a grant of £18,000, paid monthly over twelve months while those…
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Prix Médicis 2023 first selection announced
Ananda Devi, Lisette Lombé, and Salma El Moumni are on the first selection for the Prix Médicis 2023 announced on Thursday, September 21, 2022. The Prix Médicis was founded by Gala Barbisan and Jean-Pierre Giraudoux to recognise a novel, a story, a collection of short stories whose author begins or does not yet have a…
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Prix Renaudot 2023 first selection announced
Gaëlle Bélem, Eric Chacour, Nathacha Appanah, and Elgas are on the first selection for Prix Renaudot 2023 announced on Thursday, September 7, 2023. Prix Renaudot is a French literary prize awarded to the author of an outstanding original novel published during the previous year. It was created in 1926 by ten art critics awaiting the…
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Prix Ivoire for African Literature 2023 finalists announced.
The finalists for Prix Ivoire for African Literature in Francophone Expression 2023, Cote D’Ivoire’s leading literary prize, were announced in Abidjan on August 17, 2023. The Prix Ivoire for African Literature in Francophone Expression or simply Prix Ivoire is a literary award created by Akwaba Culture, an Ivorian law association in 2008. Open to writers…
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Ananda Devi wins Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro 2023
Ananda Devi’s novel Sylvia P was named the winner in her category at the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro 2023 on Thursday, June 15, 2023. Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro is a French literary prize that celebrates new heroines in French and foreign literature handed out annually by the magazine Madame Figaro. Three…
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Chris Abani, Ananda Devi on Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2024 shortlist.
Chris Abani and Ananda Devi are on the shortlist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2024 announced on Thursday, May 25, 2023. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award sponsored by the United States’ University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, World Literature Today. The prize for adult literature, is…