Category: United States
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Book Digest: Lesley-Ann Brown, Nelson Lineu, Wole Talabi, Remy Ngamije
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Lesley-Ann Brown, Nelson Lineu, Wole Talabi, and Remy Ngamije. Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology edited by Wole Talabi Publisher: Android PressDate: November 21, 2023Genre: Speculative FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Amazon Wole Talabi Wole Talabi is an engineer, writer,…
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Eloghosa Osunde wins Museum of African Diaspora’s African Literary Award 2023
Eloghosa Osunde’s novel Vagabonds! won the Museum of African Diaspora’s African Literary Award 2023 on Monday, November 20, 2023. The Museum of the African Diaspora is a contemporary art museum in San Francisco, California. One of only a few museums of its kind in the USA, they hold exhibitions and present artists exclusively of the…
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Aspen Words Literary Prize 2024 longlist announced.
The longlist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize 2024 was announced on Wednesday, November 8, 2023. Here are the writers of African descent on the list. The Aspen Words Literary Prize is an annual award for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on…
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Book Digest: Jesmyn Ward Kwame Dawes Noo Saro-Wiwa, Sarah Dass
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Jesmyn Ward, Kwame Dawes, Noo Saro-Wiwa, and Sarah Dass. When the Vibe Is Right Novel by Sarah Dass Publisher: Balzer + BrayDate: May 30, 2023Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Click here. Sarah Dass Sarah Dass was born…
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World Fantasy Awards 2023 winners announced.
The winners of the World Fantasy Awards 2023 were announced in Kansas City, USA on Sunday, October 29, 2023. The World Fantasy Awards have been awarded annually for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year since 1975. It is organised and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention. Kacen Callender, Rivers Solomon, Nisi…
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Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Awards 2023 winners announced
The winners of the Hurston/Wright Foundation 2023 Legacy Awards were announced in Washington D.C., USA on Thursday, October 26, 2023. The Hurston/Wright Foundation is named for US African-American literary icons Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright. The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award honours the best in Black literature in the United States and around the globe. The…
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Nnedi Okorafor wins at Hugo Awards 2023
Nnedi Okorafor won the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book at the Hugo Awards 2023 in Chengdu, China on Saturday, October 21, 2023. The Best Fan Writer award went to Chris M. Barkley. The Hugo and Astounding Awards, organized by the World Science Fiction Society, are awarded for the best science fiction or fantasy…
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US National Book Awards 2023 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the US National Book Awards 2023 were announced on October 3, 2013. Here are the writers of African descent who made it. The US National Book Awards are literary awards from the Northern American nations National Book Foundation established in 1936. They are conferred on the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated…
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Book Digest: David Diop, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, Romeo Oriogun, Kacen Callender
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from David Diop, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, Romeo Oriogun, and Kacen Callender. Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxDate: September 7, 2023Genre: FictionLanguage: FrenchWhere to find it: Click here. David Diop David Diop…
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Maaza Mengiste, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr are Swedish International Literature Prize 2023 finalists
Maaza Mengiste and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr were declared finalists of Sweden’s Kulturhuset Stadsteatern’s International Literature Prize on Wednesday, September 20, 2023. Kulturhuset Stadsteatern’s is Stockholm’s arts and culture centre hosting live theatre, exhibitions, libraries, seminars, events, and a cinema. One of its flagship events since 2016 is the Internationella Litteraturpris (English: International Literature Prize) awarded…
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Windham-Campbell Prize 2023 recipients receive their awards.
The Windham-Campbell Prize 2023 recipients received their awards at the Windham Campbell Prize Festival 2023 at Yale University, USA on Wednesday, September 20, 2023. The Windham-Campbell Prize was established with a gift from the late Donald Windham in memory of his partner of 40 years, Sandy M. Campbell in 2013. Recipients of the award, administered…
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Jonathan Escoffery on Booker Prize 2023 shortlist.
Jonathan Escoffery’s novel If I Survive You is on the shortlist for the Booker Prize 2023 announced on Thursday, September 21, 2023. The Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom since 1969. Some of the…
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US National Book Awards 2023 longlists announced
The longlists for the US National Book Awards 2023 were announced from September 13 – 15, 2013. Here are the writers of African descent who made it. The US National Book Awards are literary awards from the Northern American nations National Book Foundation established in 1936. They are conferred on the categories of fiction, nonfiction,…
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Darryl Pinckney wins James Tait Black Prize 2023
Darryl Pinckney’s Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan won the James Tait Black Prize 2023 on July 26, 2023. The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, awarded for literature written in the English language, are Britain’s oldest literary awards. The prizes, based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, were…
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American Book Awards 2023 winners announced.
The winners of the American Book Awards 2023 were announced on Tuesday, August 22, 2023. Here are the writers of African descent on the list. The American Book Awards, from the Before Columbus Foundation, were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. The purpose of…