Category: Translation
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2026 Longlists Announced
The longlists for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2026 were announced in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, starting on Thursday, November 27, 2025. Now in its landmark 20th edition, the award honours Arab writers, intellectuals, publishers, and young talent whose works and translations in the humanities have enriched Arab cultural, literary, and social life. One…
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Book Digest: Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, Nkereuwem Albert, Ayana Gray
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, Nkereuwem Albert, and Ayana Gray. The Slaughterhouse of Dreams by Fiston Mwanza Mujila Publisher: Deep VellumPublication Date: November 18, 2025Genre: Poetry Language: English (translated from French by J. Bret Maney) Where to find it: Deep Vellum Fiston Mwanza Mujila Fiston…
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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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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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Mayada Ibrahim, Najlaa Eltom win PEN Presents x International Booker Prize
Mayada Ibrahim and Najlaa Eltom won one of the six PEN Presents x International Booker Prize grants on Friday, September 5, 2025. Submissions to English PEN’s PEN Translates programme and the International Booker Prize have told the same story since 2016: while the representation of authors of the Global Majority is increasing, translators from the…
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Book Digest: Brian Chikwava, Priya Hein, Raymond Antrobus, Ryad Assani-Razaki
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books by Brian Chikwava, Priya Hein, Raymond Antrobus, and Ryad Assani-Razaki. Shamiso by Brian Chikwava Publisher: CanongateDate: August 28, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Canongate Brian Chikwava Brian Chikwava is a London-based writer and author of Harare North, longlisted for the 2010 Orwell Prize for political writing.…
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The African Translation Project needs your support
The African Translation Project is a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to translating contemporary fiction from non-colonial African languages into English. The African Translation Project is a groundbreaking initiative curated by award-winning South African author, editor, and publisher Zukiswa Wanner through her press Paivapo Publishing, and E.D.E. Bell, a Detroit-based author and international literary curator. The project…
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Prix Premiere 2025 longlist announced.
The Prix Première 2025 longlist, featuring four writers of African descent, was announced in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Prix Première (English: First Prize) is an award organized by the Franco-German Cultural Institute of Tübingen and the Book Office of the French Institute in Germany. It celebrates books translated from French into German…
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Book Digest: Alain Mabanckou, Jackson P. Brown, Markus Redmond, Patrick Ochieng
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books by Alain Mabanckou, Jackson P. Brown, Markus Redmond, and Patrick Ochieng. Dealing with the Dead by Alain Mabanckou Publisher: Serpents TailDate: January 16, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: English (Translated from French by Helen Stevenson) Where to find it: Serpent’s Tail Alain Mabanckou Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet,…
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English PEN Translates 2025 winners announced
Conceição Evaristo, Gaël Faye, and Ana Paula Maia are among the PEN Translates 2025 winners announced on Thursday, July 24, 2025. PEN Translates, with support from Arts Council England, has encouraged UK publishers to acquire more books from other languages since 2012. The award helps UK publishers to meet the costs of translating new works…
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Prix de la Littérature Arabe 2025 shortlist announced
The Prix de la Littérature Arabe 2025 shortlist was announced in Paris, France, on Saturday, July 19, 2025. The Prix de la Littérature Arabe is awarded to a writer, a national of a member country of the Arab League, and an author of a published book, novel, collection of short stories or poems, written in…
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Book Digest: Ntombi Nkabinde, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Marcia Hutchinson, Max Lobe
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books by Ntombi Nkabinde, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Marcia Hutchinson, and Max Lobe. In the Late of Night by Ntombi Nkabinde Publisher: Penguin Random House South AfricaDate: July 1, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Penguin Random House South Africa Ntombi Nkabinde Ntombi Nkabinde is a psychometrist with degrees…
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Natasha Brown, Troy Onyango on International Booker Prize 2026 jury
Natasha Brown and Troy Onyango are on the International Booker Prize 2026 jury announced in London, UK, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for the finest single work of fiction from around the world translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland in the previous year. Founded…
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Book Digest: Sabata-Mpho Mokae, Euphrase Kezilahabi, André Alexis, Rochelle Dowden-Lord
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books by Sabata-Mpho Mokae, Euphrase Kezilahabi, André Alexis, and Rochelle Dowden-Lord. Letastshe Ke La Badimo by Sabata-Mpho Mokae Publisher: Xarra BooksDate: June 20, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: SetswanaWhere to find it: Xarra Books Sabata-Mpho Mokae Sabata-Mpho Mokae is an academic, award-winning novelist and translator from South Africa who writes in…
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Book Digest: Abdulrazak Gurnah, José Eduardo Agualusa, Laura Pegram, Adam Oyebanji
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books by Abdulrazak Gurnah, José Eduardo Agualusa, Laura Pegram, and Adam Oyebanji. Dhulma by Abdulrazak Gurnah Publisher: Mkuki Na NyotaDate: May 31, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: Kiswahili (translated from English by Dr. Ida Hadjivayanis)Where to find it: Mkuki Na Nyota Abdulrazak Gurnah Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 winner of the…