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Golden Baobab Awards 2014 Winners unveiled

The winners of the 2014 Golden Baobab Prizes were announced yesterday. After many hundreds of entries and tension as we waited to see who would be considered the best picture story, early chapter prize, and illustrator who considers children their target audience from the shortlisted few. The esteemed judges came to a decision and the winners are:

  • Picture Books – Portia Dery, from Ghana for Grandma’s List
  • Early Chapter Books – Mary Ononokpono, from Nigeria for Talulah the Time Traveler (Bookshy Books have a great interview of hers here)
  • Illustrators – Xanele Puren, from South Africa. The Golden Baobab Prize for Illustrators is the biggest and most prestigious prize committed to discovering, nurturing, and celebrating talented African illustrators of children’s stories.

For those who are not in the know this award for children’s literature is now in its 6th year of the Golden Baobab Prizes. The lucky winners go home with $20,000 in monetary awards, publishing opportunities for winners of the Picture Book and Early Chapter Book Prizes, and the winner of the Illustration prize attends a Golden Baobab award ceremony and a traveling exhibition of artist’s illustrations.

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5 responses to “Golden Baobab Awards 2014 Winners unveiled”

  1. Short Story Day Africa 2015 longlist announced | James Murua's Literature Blog

    […] out of Mzansi in the last twenty years. With Nigeria, Mary Okon Ononokpono jumps out as she was the winner for the Early Chapter Books at the Golden Baobab Awards last year for Talulah the Time Traveler. In the […]

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  2. Short Story Day Africa 2015 longlist announced – James Murua's Literature Blog

    […] out of Mzansi in the last twenty years. With Nigeria, Mary Okon Ononokpono jumps out as she was the winner for the Early Chapter Books at the Golden Baobab Awards last year for Talulah the Time Traveler. In the […]

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  3. The Golden Baobab Prize 2016 winners announced in Ghana

    […] The Golden Baobab Prize was set up to inspire the imaginations of African children through African stories. The Prize is often referred to as the “African Newbery Prize”, and is renowned as a pioneering and prestigious award in the African children’s literature industry. Previous winners of this prize include Mary Ononokpono, Xanele Puren, and Portia Dery. […]

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  4. Portia Dery is Africana Book Award 2018 winner for Grandma’s List.

    […] Grandma’s List published by African Bureau Stories, won the 2018 CABA Young Children’s category along with books from international publishers Penguin Random House, Candlewick Press and Lantana Publishing and a few others. This is the second international children’s book award for Grandma’s List having previously won the Golden Baobab Prize for The Best Picture Book manuscript in Africa in 2014. […]

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  5. Golden Baobab Prize 2016 launches

    […] One of the coolest things that the coolest things that happened on the day was the Golden Baobab prize was launched with a video on their Facebook page. For the uninformed, the Golden Baobab Prize are the only annual Pan African literature prizes aimed at inspiring African authors to create and submit unpublished stories targeting readers below the age of 12 years. There are three Golden Baobab Prizes: for the best picture book, for the best early chapter book and for the best African Rising Writer. Additionally, Golden Baobab’s Literary Services connects winning and shortlisted authors to leading publishers across Africa. All the above are unique to Golden Baobab. Some of the previous winners of the award include Portia Dery , Mary Okon Ononokpono and Xanele Puren. […]

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