Tag: Chinelo Okparanta

  • Aspen Words Literary Prize 2023 longlist announced.

    Aspen Words Literary Prize 2023 longlist announced.

    The Aspen Words Literary Prize 2023 longlist was announced on December 12, 2022. Here are the writers of African descent on the list. The Aspen Words Literary Prize is an annual award for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.…

  • Book Digest: Gauz, Tomi Obaro, Chinelo Okparanta, Saleh Addonia

    Book Digest: Gauz, Tomi Obaro, Chinelo Okparanta, Saleh Addonia

    We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Gauz, Tomi Obaro, Chinelo Okparanta, and Saleh Addonia. Cocoaïans by Gauz Publisher: L’ Arche EditionsPublication Date: August 19, 2022Genre: NonfictionLanguage: FrenchWhere to find it: Decitre, Amazon. Gauz Born in Abidjan, a biochemist by training, Gauz arrived in France…

  • Eight books by African authors that have been translated in 2019.

    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…

  • African writers converge for Berlin’s first African Book Festival.

    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…

  • José Eduardo Agualusa, Mia Couto and Chinelo Okparanta make Dublin 2017 shortlist

    José Eduardo Agualusa, Mia Couto and Chinelo Okparanta make Dublin 2017 shortlist

    José Eduardo Agualusa, Mia Couto and Chinelo Okparanta are three African on the shortlist of the Dublin International Literary Award 2017 announced on April 11, 2017. The Dublin International Literary Award is worth €100,000 to the winner and is the world’s most valuable annual literary award for a single work of fiction published in English.…

  • Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to headline action packed Ake Festival 2016

    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…

  • Images from the Uganda International Writers’ Conference 2015

    Images from the Uganda International Writers’ Conference 2015

    So I gave a snapshot from the 2015 edition of the Uganda International Writers’ Conference on Wednesday. Here are images from the organisers who had invited a huge number of authors. Thanks organisers!

  • A snapshot of the Uganda International Writers’ Conference 2015

    A snapshot of the Uganda International Writers’ Conference 2015

    It was all going down in Kampala, Uganda as writers from around the continent converged for the 2015 edition of the Uganda International Writers’ Conference. There was a large number of events from 1st to 6th March with the theme some free and some paid with the theme, Memoir and Truth. Some of the highlights…

  • Etisalat Prize Shortlist 2014 announced

    Etisalat Prize Shortlist 2014 announced

    And then there were three. The judges for the Etisalat Prize for African Literature have whittled down the long list of writers and those next in the line were announced. The three shortlistees in the running for the next awards are Nadia Davids, for An Imperfect Blessing (Random House Struik-Umuzi), Chinelo Okparanta for Happiness Like…

  • Meet African writers on the Palm Print’s The Living Room

    Meet African writers on the Palm Print’s The Living Room

    Getting to read Africans is getting easier and easier with spaces like Amazon and more publishers than ever getting into the fiction space in the recent past. Whilst it is relatively easy to pick up the book and read the story from the author the author is usually unseen like in other art forms like…

  • Etisalat Prize for Literature 2014 longlist announced

    Etisalat Prize for Literature 2014 longlist announced

    The longlist for the Etisalat Prize for African Literature was announced by the panel of judges earlier today. They are; As you can see from the above list, South Africa reigns supreme with a haul of four books. Our Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi continues with her reign of terror good run of form where the prizes are…

  • Nigerian Chinelo Okparanta wins US short story prize

    Nigerian Chinelo Okparanta wins US short story prize

    Nigerian writer Chinelo Okparanta is one of the winners of the short fiction 2014 O. Henry Prize. The O Henry Prize was established in 1919 to “strengthen the art of the short story and to stimulate younger authors.” Some of the more well-known winners of the prize include Alice Munro who won the Nobel Prize…