Tag: Blackbird Books
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Rémy Ngamije’s novel “The Eternal Audience of One” gets US publisher.
The English language rights for Rémy Ngamije’s The Eternal Audience of One have been acquired by Scout Press, an imprint of Simon and Schuster in the United States. The acquisition was officially made public on June 17, 2020. The Eternal Audience of One, the debut novel by Rwanda-born Namibian Rémy Ngamije, follows the life of…
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South Africa’s BlackBird Books is now an independent publisher.
BlackBird Books, formerly an imprint with Jacana Publishers in South Africa, became an independent publisher on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. In the early 2010s, Jacana Publishers brought us some of South Africa’s most popular books at the time like Memoirs of a Born Free by Malaika wa Azania, My Father My Monster by McIntosh Polela…
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Naledi Mashishi, Relebone Myambo for Blackbird Books/Casa Lorde Residency 2019.
Naledi Mashishi and Relebone Myambo were announced as the new residents of the Blackbird Books/Casa Lorde Residency 2019 on September 16, 2019. Blackbird Books headed by Thabiso Mahlape, provides a publishing home to both new voices and the existing generation of black writers. Since they were set up in 2015, they have published, among others,…
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Keletso Mopai’s “If You Keep Digging” available for your reading pleasure.
Keletso Mopai’s short story collection If You Keep Digging was published by Blackbird Books on June 1, 2019. Keletso Mopai first came to our attention when she was longlisted for the Writivism Short Story prize in 2017. Since then we have encountered her writing in the Johannesburg Review of Books, Drum, Omenana Magazine, Brittle Paper,…
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Blackbird Books new residency seeks young black womxn writers.
Blackbird Books are seeking out young African womxn who are starting their careers as writers for a new writer’s residency in Pretoria, South Africa. Blackbird Books, an imprint of Jacana Media, headed by Thabiso Mahlape, provides a platform and a publishing home to both new voices and the existing generation of black writers. Since they…
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Lerato Mogoatlhe travel memoir “Vagabond” launches in Johannesburg.
Lerato Mogoatlhe’s travel memoir Vagabond launched in Johannesburg, South Africa on April 9, 2019. Lerato Mogoatlhe is a South African journalist who has worked at publications such as Sunday Times, City Press, DRUM, True Love and Cosmopolitan, Mail & Guardian, Marie Claire, Hercules Spain, and Sunday Independent. Something happened to her along that journey in…
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Lerato Mogoatlhe’s travel memoir “Vagabond” out in September 2018.
Lerato Mogoatlhe’s travel memoir Vagabond is set to hit your bookshelves in September 2018. The book is published by Blackbird Books. Lerato Mogoatlhe is a journalist who has worked for many years at publications like Sunday Times, City Press, DRUM, True Love and Cosmopolitan, Mail & Guardian, Marie Claire, Hercules Spain, and Sunday Independent. Something…
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The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2018 longlist announced
The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2018 longlist for the Barry Rouge Fiction Prize was announced on April 1, 2018. In 1989, South African newspaper The Sunday Times started a new literary prize they called The Sunday Times Literary Prize. We aren’t sure if they were seeing what was happening as their country was in the…