Tag: Dawnie Walton
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Dawnie Walton wins US’ Aspen Words Literary Prize 2022.
Dawnie Walton was declared the winner of the Aspen Words Literary Prize 2022 on Thursday, April 21, 2022. 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. Eligible works include novels or…
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Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022 longlist announced.
Morowa Yejidé, Lisa Allen-Agostini, Dawnie Walton, and Leone Ross are on the longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022 announced today. The Women’s Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious literary prizes first handed out in 1996. It is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the…
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Writers of African descent on US’Aspen Words Literary Prize 2022 longlist.
There are six writers of African descent on the longlists for the Aspen Words Literary Prize 2022 announced on November 10, 2021. They are Omar El Akkad, Myriam J.A. Chancy, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Jason Mott, and Dawnie Walton. The Aspen Words Literary Prize is an annual award for an influential work of fiction…