Writing Africa: Archiving African and Black Literature

Recap 2025: Literary Awards, Residencies, and Fellowships

As part of our 2025 recap, we list Literary Awards, Residencies, and Fellowships in African and Black Literature over the year.

It was another year of overachieving writers of African descent as they grabbed awards, fellowships, and residencies on the continent and in the diaspora. While it cannot be compared to the heights of 2021, when many huge awards like the Nobel, the Booker, and the Prix Goncourt were bagged, it was still a decent haul as the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Renaudot went to African writers. Like in previous years, we covered happenings in Africa (continental and national), the Americas, and Europe. If any awards were won by African writers in Asia, we may have missed them, and if you know anything, we would appreciate being informed.

Literary Awards, Residencies, and Fellowships

Africa and the Middle East

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