Tag: A Igoni Barrett
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Zoë Wicomb, A. Igoni Barrett, Keith Jarrett to judge Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021.
Zoë Wicomb, Keith Jarrett, and A. Igoni Barrett are on the judging panel of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021 announced on September 8, 2020. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction in English in the regions of Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and the…
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Quramo Writers Prize 2019 finalists announced in Lagos.
The finalists for the Quramo Writers Prize 2019 have been announced today November 18, 2019, in Lagos. The Quramo Writers’ Prize is an award celebrating unpublished writers who are working every day to hone their craft and record the continent’s original stories. Founded in 2017 by Quramo Publishers, it aims to encourage and stimulate a…
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A Igoni Barrett’s debut novel “Blackass” available in Chinese.
A Igoni Barrett debut novel Blackass has been available to Chinese readers since 2017. We have covered A. Igoni Barrett on this blog mainly because of his work as one of the principal judges for the Graywolf Press Africa Prize. While this is important work, the Lagos-based writer is more than just a judge for…
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Noor Naga is the Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2019 winner.
Noor Naga was announced the Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2019 winner for her manuscript American Girl and Boy from Shobrakheit on September 12, 2019. US-based Graywolf Press has published some of the best writers from Africa like Nuruddin Farah, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Anouar Benmalek. They founded the Graywolf Press Africa Prize in 2018…
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Submissions sought for A. Igoni Barrett judged Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2019.
A. Igoni Barrett will reprise his role as a judge for the Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2019. Submissions for the prize open on May 1, 2019. Graywolf Press, founded by Scott Walker in Port Townsend, Washington, USA, has published some of the best writers from Africa. These include Nuruddin Farah (Sweet and Sour Milk, 2006),…
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African writers converge for Berlin’s first African Book Festival.
Writers from across the African continent converged on Berlin for the first African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the headliner on April 26-28, 2018. Organised by the InterKontinental and curated by Olumide Popoola, the festival looked at transnationalism and migration in a more literary sense of “keeping in motion”. Berlin has a very unique…
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Khadija Abdalla Bajaber is the Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2018 winner
Kenyan poet Khadija Abdalla Bajaber has been announced as the Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2018 winner for her manuscript The House of Rust. She receives a $12,000 advance and her manuscript gets published in English by Graywolf Press and in Italian by 66thand2nd. A few months ago we announced a call out for an exciting…
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A Igoni Barrett to judge manuscript prize worth US$12,000
Novelist A. Igoni Barrett will serve as the inaugural judge of the Graywolf Press Africa Prize. The prize is worth US$12,000 to the winner. Graywolf Press was founded by Scott Walker in Port Townsend, Washington, in 1974. Graywolf’s first publications were limited-edition chapbooks of poetry, which were printed on a letterpress and hand sewn by…
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The Ake Arts and Book Festival 2015 is here!
At this moment people are flying into Nigeria from all over world headed to Abeokuta; they are all coming to that city a couple of hours away from Lagos to attend the Ake Festival 2015. The Ake Festival was born in 2013 and it has quickly become the go to festival to meet African and…
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Cynthia Jele short story to kick off Long Story Short Project
There are so many events in and around the African Literature sphere in the very recent. One of the ones which I have been tracking and that interests me very much is the Long Story Short project which is the brainchild of Yewande Omotoso. Omotoso for the uninformed most recently was announced as one of…