Tag: Ayesha Harruna Attah
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Chika Unigwe to chair Caine Prize for African Writing 2024 jury
Chika Unigwe is the chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2024 jury announced on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Other jury members are Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Julianknxx, Tumi Molekane, and Ayesha Harruna Attah. The Caine Prize for African Writing is awarded annually to an African writer published in English for an outstanding short story…
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Translations: Nadifa Mohammed, Wole Soyinka, Ayesha Harruna Attah, Max Lobe
Translations for books by Nadifa Mohammed, Wole Soyinka, Ayesha Harruna Attah, and Max Lobe, are currently available for your reading pleasure. Book: Menino Mamba-NegraOriginal Title: Black Mamba Boy (2010)Author: Nadifa MohamedTranslator: Marina Della VallePublisher: TordesilhasPublishing Date: July 13, 2021Language: English to Portuguese Yemen, 1935. Jama is a “market boy,” a half-feral child scavenging with his…
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Ayesha Harruna Attah on Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Awards 2021 shortlist.
Ayesha Harruna Attah’s The Deep Blue Between is on the shortlist of the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Awards 2021 announced on May 20, 2021. You can now vote for her to win the prize. The Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, first awarded in 2016, is an international prize that supports and celebrates the best adventure…
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Patreons: Maaza Mengiste Livestream, Ayesha Haruna Attah Podcast
Hello Patreons. This week I have a podcast featuring Ayesha Harruna Attah and the Livestream that ran yesterday featuring Maaza Mengiste and Antje Rávik Strubel. Podcast episode 18: Ayesha Harruna Attah Ayesha Harruna Attah is a Ghanaian-born Senegal-based writer of the books Harmattan Rain (2008), Saturday’s Shadow (2015), and The Hundred Wells of Salaga (2018).…
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Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ayesha Harruna Attah on Saroyan Prize 2020 shortlist.
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ayesha Harruna Attah, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah are on the shortlist for the Saroyan Prize 2020 announced on June 1, 2020. William Saroyan (1908-1981), an American writer and playwright, is a Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winner best known for his short stories about humorous experiences of immigrant families and children in California.…
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Ayesha Harruna Attah wraps up day two of Season 3 of Afrolit Sans Frontières.
Ayesha Harruna Attah wrapped up day two of Season 3 of Afrolit Sans Frontières from Dakar, Senegal on May 26, 2020. She was hosted by Bisi Adjapon. Afrolit Sans Frontières, a virtual literary festival for writers of African origin, started as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic international lockdown in March. It has had two…
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Ayesha Harruna Attah’s “The Hundred Wells of Salaga” now available in French.
Ayesha Harruna Attah’s novel The Hundred Wells of Salaga is now available in French as Les Cent Puits De Salaga. The Hundred Wells of Salaga is a novel by Ayesha Harruna Attah about two women whose lives intersect in the Salaga slave market in pre-colonial Ghana. Aminah is kidnapped and sold into slavery, and Wurche…
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Eight books by African authors that have been translated in 2019.
We give you eight books by African authors that have been translated into several languages in 2019. Translation is a very important aspect of writing that many writers don’t take too seriously. While it is exciting for your book to finally go through the publishing process, one mustn’t forget that it can get a new…
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Translations: Ayesha Harruna Attah, Koleka Putuma, Akwaeke Emezi.
Translations for work by Ayesha Harruna Attah, Koleka Putuma, and Akwaeke Emezi are either here or in the works. Translations are an important part of any publishing ecosystem to thrive. Here is some work that you can expect to see in translation either on your bookshelf or in the not too distant future. The Hundred…
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Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 guest list unveiled.
The guest list for Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 has been unveiled. The festival curated by writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga runs from April 4-7, 2019. In 2018, writers from across Africa and its diaspora converged on Berlin for the African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the headliner. The festival organised by InterKontinental and…
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Meet the judges for the Writivism Fiction and Nonfiction prizes for 2019.
The judges for the Writivism Short Story Prize 2019 and the Koffi Addo Prize for Nonfiction 2019 were announced on December 5, 2018. Writivism is an organisation that does activities around the writing ecosystem. Based out of a Kampala, Uganda headquarters, the organisation organises a literary festival, an annual writing competition, mentoring for young writers…
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Interview: Five questions with Ayesha Harruna Attah.
Ayesha Harruna Attah is the author of the new novel The Hundred Wells of Salaga published by Cassava Republic Press. This is the writer’s second novel. She agreed to answer five of our questions. Ghanaian writer Ayesha Harruna Attah is a writer of no mean repute with her first novel, Harmattan Rain, being shortlisted for…
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Morland Writing scholarships 2016 winners announced
The Morland Writing scholarships 2016 winners have been announced and they are Abdul Adan (Somalia), Ayesha Harruna Attah (Ghana), Lidudumalingani Mqombothi (South Africa), and Nneoma Ike-Njoku (Nigeria). The Judges for this year were, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, the Chair, accompanied by Olufemi Terry and Muthoni Garland. “We were especially concerned this year to choose scholars whose proposals…
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Morland Writing Scholarships 2015 shortlist announced
The Miles Morland Foundation has just announced the shortlist for the 2015 Morland Writing Scholarships. These applicants will be whittled down to four on December 14th by the judges Ellah Allfrey who is chair, Olufemi Terry, and Muthoni Garland and announced shortly after. The list features a healthy list of twenty-one applicants with seven from…