Tag: Chris Abani
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Book Digest: Siphokazi Jonas, Anthony Joseph, Scola Moraa, Kwame Dawes
In our regular Book Digest segment, we wrap up book news for our readers with books from Siphokazi Jonas, Anthony Joseph, Scola Moraa, Kwame Dawes, and Chris Abani. This week, our focus is poetry by writers of African descent that is already in the market or forthcoming. When Love Says Goodbye by Scholastica Moraa Publisher: …
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Chris Abani at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 2
Chris Abani wrapped up the sixth day of Season 2 of Afrolit Sans Frontières from Chicago, USA on Saturday, April 25, 2020. He was hosted by festival curator Maaza Mengiste. Afrolit Sans Frontières, a new initiative by and for writers of African origin, was started in March as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic international…
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Tsitsi Dangarembga on US St. Francis College Literary Prize 2019 shortlist.
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body is on the shortlist for the St Francis College Literary Prize 2019 announced on August 15, 2019. The St Francis College Literary Prize is a biennial award recognising outstanding fiction by writers in the middle stages of their careers. The prize worth US$50,000 has been won by Aleksandar Hemon (2009),…
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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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Lagos International Poetry Festival 2017 for November #lipfest2017
The Lagos International Poetry Festival 2017 is set to happen from November 1-5, 2017. The festival theme is “Bridges from Walls.” In 2015, a team of Lagosians led by founder Efe Paul Azino hosted the Lagos International Poetry Festival at Freedom Park the home of the arts in commercial hub of the West African country.…
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Sillerman First Book Prize 2016 open for writers
The Sillerman First Book Prize has started to become one of the best prizes for African poets to show their chops in world poetry. Past winners of the prize include 2014 winner Ladan Osman and 2013 winner Clifton Gachagua, whose collection Madman at Kilifi was released as part of this year’s African Poetry Book series.For…
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Chris Abani wins Best Paperback Original at Edgar awards 2015
A few months ago I spoke about the Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, which are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City, USA. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the…
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Chris Abani makes Edgar Awards 2015 shortlist
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City, USA. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year. On the nominees’ list for 2015…