Tag: Fiston Mwanza Mujila
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila wins Preis der Literaturhäuser 2024
Fiston Mwanza Mujila was declared the winner of Germany’s Preis der Literaturhäuser 2024 on Wednesday, February 7, 2024. Preis der Literaturhäuser (English: Literature Houses Prize) is a German literary prize awarded annually to authors by program managers of literary houses during the Leipziger Buchmesse (Leipzig book fair) for exceptional text and presentation skills. Some of…
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Logan February are DAAD Berlin Artist-in-Residents 2024
Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Logan February are among the artists in the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Resident program 2024 announced on October 7, 2023. The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program has been awarded internationally highly regarded fellowships since 1963. Over 1000 outstanding international visual artists, authors, filmmakers, composers, and sound artists have been invited to live and work in…
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A snapshot of Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Weltwortreisende 2022 in Austria.
Weltwortreisende 2022 (World Word Travellers), organised by Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Robert Reithofer, was hosted in Graz, Austria from October 20 – 22, 2022. Weltwortreisende (World Word Travellers) or Transnational Literary Days, running for the second year, are not only a crossroads for literature, but also a meeting point for languages and representations of the…
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Khal Torabully on Sarah Maguire Prize 2022 shortlist
Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Khal Torabully are on the shortlist for the Sarah Maguire Prize 2022 announced on September 22, 2022. The Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation is an international biennial award for the best book of poetry in English translation by a living poet from beyond Europe. It was established in the…
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila receives his Prix Les Afriques 2021 award
Fiston Mwanza Mujila whose novel Le Danse du Vilain won Le Prix Les Afriques 2021 received his award in a ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland on June 25, 2022. Prix Les Afriques is awarded annually to an African or writer of African descent who has written fiction highlighting a human, societal, ideological, political, cultural, economic, or…
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila wins Le Prix Les Afriques 2021.
Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s novel Le Danse du Vilain was declared the winner of Le Prix Les Afriques 2021 on Friday, December 10, 2021. Prix Les Afriques is awarded annually to an African or writer of African descent who has written fiction highlighting a human, societal, ideological, political, cultural, economic or historical issue related to Africa…
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Five writers make Prix Les Afriques 2021 shortlist
Bernardine Evaristo, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, Marc Alexandre Oho Bambe, and Sindiwe Magona make up the shortlist for Le Prix Les Afriques 2021 announced today, Monday, October 11, 2021. Prix Les Afriques was created by the Swiss lawyer Ngoãn Beti founded association La Cene Littéraire in 2015. It is awarded annually to an…
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Prix Kourouma 2021 shortlist announced in Geneva
Six writers feature on the shortlist for the Prix Kourouma 2021 announced in Geneva, Switzerland on May 31, 2021. When legendary Ivorian author Ahmadou Kourouma passed away in 2003, the African salon at the Geneva Book Fair decided to pay tribute to him by creating a literary prize that bears his name in the following…
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila is Austria’s Rosegger Literary Prize 2018 winner.
Fiston Mwanza Mujila is the Rosegger Literary Prize 2018 winner for his novel Tram 83. The Austria based prize, worth 10,000 Euros, was awarded on March 31, 2018. The Peter Rosegger Literature Prize has been awarded since 1951 by the Province of Styria in memory of Peter Rosegger. Styria is one of the provinces of…
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Open Book Festival 2017 kicks off in Cape Town, South Africa
The Open Book Festival 2017 kicked off today in Cape Town, South Africa. The festival will run from September 6-10, 2017. The Open Book Festival is an annual literary festival held in Cape Town, South Africa with a focus on South African literature in an international context. The event, first held in 2011, includes over…
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Mgqolozana, Mabanckou, Golakai make New African’s 100 Most Influential Africans 2016 List
The New African’s 100 most influential Africans list 2016 include a healthy number of those in the book business from all corners of the continent. The fill list was done with the help of guest editor Bibi Bakare-Yusuf and includes Alain Mabankou. Hawa Jande Golakai, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Roye Okupe, Thando Mgqolozana, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,…
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Etisalat Prize 2015 tour: winner and shortlistees invade Nairobi
Etisalat Prize 2015 tour: The Etisalat Prize for Literature 2015 is set to hold a series of literary events in Nairobi from Wednesday, June 15th – Saturday, June 18th 2016. The event will be aimed at celebrating the shortlisted writers and winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature. The Etisalat Prize for Literature is…
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Angolan heartthrob misses out on Man Booker International Prize 2016
Angolan heartthrob José Eduardo Agualusa missed out as Korean Han Kang was announced the winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016 this year with her book The Vegetarian. The book was translated into English by Deborah Smith. The winner was announced at a grand ceremony last night in London, UK. The Man Booker Prize…
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Shakara Baby-chicks and Locomotive Tales: Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83 By Ato Quayson
Fiston Mwanza Mujila was the winner of the most recent Etisalat Prize for Literature in a ceremony in Lagos on 19th March 2016. The chief judge of the prize Ato Quayson who is a professor at the University of Toronto had very positive words to say about the book when he made the presentation…
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Images and videos from Etisalat Prize for Literature 2015 ceremony
It was a big night for poet and novelist Fiston Mwanza Mujila on Saturday, 19th March 2016 as he was announced the winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature for his first novel, Tram 83. Originally written in French, Tram 83 was translated into English by Roland Glasser and published by Deep Vellum. 35-year-old Mujila is the first Francophone…