Tag: Alain Mabanckou
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Alain Mabanckou stars at Francophonie Month in Nairobi
Alain Mabanckou dazzled Nairobi residents as the guest of honour of Francophonie Month in Kenya from March 10-14, 2022. Every year during the month of March, the richness and vitality of La Francophonie is celebrated around the world. In Nairobi, the guest of honour for Francophonie Month was novelist, journalist, poet, and academic Alain Mabanckou.…
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Alain Mabanckou for Alliance Française, Nairobi on March 10
Congolese author and academic Alain Mabanckou will present three of his titles at the Alliance Française, Nairobi on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Alain Mabanckou isn’t a new name to anyone who has been following the literary scene in recent times. He is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic…
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Alain Mabanckou-powered Atlantide Literature Festival 2022 starts February 24.
The Atlantide Literature Festival executive directed by Alain Mabanckou kicks off in Nantes, France from February 24 – 27, 2022. The Atlantide Literature Festival has gathered dozens of international and French writers to the French city of Nantes since it was founded in 2013. The artistic director of the festival Alain Mabanckou has performed this…
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Alain Mabanckou is Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 judge.
Alain Mabanckou was revealed to be one of the judges for the Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 on Tuesday, January 11, 2022. The Booker Prize for Fiction, founded in 1969, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. Some of…
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Bernardine Evaristo is president-elect of UK’s Royal Society of Literature.
Bernardine Evaristo was revealed to be new President-elect of the Royal Society of Literature on November 30, 2021. The society also announced its new honours list which features Jamaica Kincaid, Alain Mabanckou, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and Claudia Rankine. The Royal Society of Literature is a society founded by King George IV, to “reward literary merit…
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Prix Kourouma 2021 longlist announced.
The writers who made the longlist for the Prix Kourouma 2021 were announced on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. When legendary Ivorian author Ahmadou Kourouma passed away in 2003, the African salon at the Geneva Book Fair decided to pay tribute to him by creating a literary prize that bears his name in the following year.…
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A snapshot of the Atlantide Festival 2019.
The Atlantide Festival 2019, curated by Alain Mabanckou, was hosted in Nantes, France from February 28 to March 3, 2019. The Atlantide Literature Festival, founded in 2013, gathered fifty writers from 24 different nationalities to the French city of Nantes. Just like in 2018, the artistic director of the festival now in its seventh year,…
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Alain Mabanckou is Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Legacy Award 2018 winner.
Alain Mabanckou is the Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Legacy Award 2018 winner for his novel Black Moses. The announcement was made at a ceremony in Washington, USA on October 19, 2018. 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…
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Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Awards 2018 nominees announced.
The Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Awards 2018 nominees have been announced and feature writers and poets with African roots. They include Lesley Nneka Arimah, Peter Kimani, Alain Mabanckou, Zinzi Clemmons, Yewande Omotoso, and Kwame Dawes. The Hurston/Wright Foundation is named for US African American literary geniuses Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright. The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award…
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Alain Mabanckou makes Man Booker International Prize 2017 Longlist
Alain Mabanckou is on the Man Booker International Prize 2017 Longlist that has been announced today. The Man Booker International Prize is awarded every year for a single book, which is translated into English and published in the UK. Both novels and short-story collections are eligible. The work of translators is equally rewarded, with the…
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Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to headline action packed Ake Festival 2016
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o will be the headline guest at this year’s edition of Ake Festival 2016. Ngugi, who will sit in conversation with Okey Ndibe about his life and work, will be joined by a galaxy of stars in the African literary space. This year’s edition is themed “Beneath this Skin.’ 15-19 November 2016 are…
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2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature Judging Panel out
The Etisalat Prize for African Literature has announced a new panel of judges for 2014. With last year’s former judge Sarah Ladipo Manyika remaining as Chair for continuity she is joined by Alain Mabanckou, Jamal Mahjoub, and Tsitsi Dangarembga. We knew Sarah Ladipo as one of the judges for the previous edition of the inaugural…