Tag: Chika Unigwe
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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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New American Voices Award 2023 finalists announced
The longlist for the Institute for Immigration Research’s New American Voices Award 2023 was made public on Thursday, July 13, 2023. Here are the writers of African descent on the list. Fall for the Book is an independent non-profit literary arts organization that promotes reading by sponsoring a variety of year-round events and activities based…
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Book Digest: Chika Unigwe, Djaïli Amadou Amal, Breanne Mc Ivor, Peace Adzo Medie
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Djaïli Amadou Amal, Breanne Mc Ivor, Peace Adzo Medie, and Chika Unigwe. The God of Good Looks by Breanne Mc Ivor Publisher: William MorrowDate: May 16, 2023Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Click here. Breanne Mc Ivor Breanne…
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Awele Creative Trust Award 2022 longlist announced
The longlist for the Awele Creative Trust Award 2022 was announced on Thursday, March 2, 2023. The Awele Creative Trust is a non-profit organisation created to provide an enabling environment and platform for creative young persons founded by Chika Unigwe. Its annual prize the Awele Creative Trust Award, valued at ₦50,000, rewards a short story…
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Chika Unigwe on Prix Fragonard 2022 Deuxième Selection
Chika Unigwe is on the deuxième selection for Prix Fragonard 2022 announced on Thursday, April 7, 2022. French perfumer Fragonard announced Prix Fragonard, a new prize for women’s foreign literature, “A new female voice from elsewhere” this year. It was aimed at more visibility to foreign women’s literature, by supporting non-French-speaking authors as well as…
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Chika Unigwe, Tola Rotimi Abraham on Prix Fragonard 2022 premier selection
Chika Unigwe and Tola Rotimi Abraham are on the premier selection for Prix Fragonard 2022 announced on March 24, 2022. French perfumer Fragonard announced Prix Fragonard, a new prize for women’s foreign literature, “A new female voice from elsewhere” this year. It was aimed at more visibility to foreign women’s literature, by supporting non-French-speaking authors…
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Toni Kan’s “Nights of the Creaking Bed” makes UK debut.
Toni Kan’s critically acclaimed and award-winning short story collection Nights of the Creaking Bed makes its UK debut today April 30, 2019. A few days ago we here at JamesMurua.com were excited to announce the arrival of the new imprint Cassava Shorts. The outfit promised to bring to the light gripping stories by celebrated and…
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Cassava Shorts to issue Chika Unigwe, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and Toni Kan titles.
Nigeria’s newest imprint Cassava Shorts is set to issue titles by Chika Unigwe, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, and Toni Kan. There’s a new imprint in Nigerian called Cassava Shorts from Cassava Republic Press. It has announced a new short story series that will bring to the light gripping stories by celebrated and emerging authors. Cassava Shorts…
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Nigerian Prize for Literature 2017 winner Ikeogu Oke has passed on.
Nigerian Prize for Literature 2017 winner Ikeogu Oke has passed on. The poet died from a short illness on Sunday, November 26, 2018. Nigerian poet Ikeogu Oke who studied at the Universities of Ibadan and Nigeria has been known for his collections like Salutes Without Guns, The Tortoise and the Princess, The Lion and the…
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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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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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Tributes flood in for legendary Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta the author of numerous novels passed away in London, UK on January 25th 2017. Tributes from all over the African literary community have been shared on social media. Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta OBE (21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) was a Nigerian novelist, based in Britain since 1960,[1] who had also written…
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Chika Unigwe is a Man Booker International Prize 2017 judge
Chika Unigwe is one of the judges who have been announced for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize 2017. Chika Unigwe is the author of novels like Tear Drops (1993), A Rainbow for Dinner (2002), On Black Sisters Street (2009, 2011 Jonathan Cape, UK and Random House NY) and Night Dancer (Jonathan Cape, 2012) (2002),Thinking of Angel…
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Mildred Barya wins Sylt Foundation African Writer´s Residency Award 2015
It’s official. Ugandan writer and poet Mildred Barya has been selected as the 2015 winner of the Sylt Foundation African Writer´s Residency Award. The residency includes a two months stay in a subsidized apartment on the German island of Sylt. She follows in the illustrious steps of folks like Nii Ayikwei Parkes (2014) and Chika…
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The Writivism Short Story Prize Shortlist 2015 out
The shortlist for the Writivism Short Story Competition 2015 has been announced by Chika Unigwe the chair of the judging panel. She was helped in her task by Mukoma wa Ngugi, Tendai Huchu, Rachel Zadok, and Ainehi Edoro. The stories were read blind, as in they didn’t know who there were reading, and those still…