Tag: Futhi Ntshingila
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Futhi Ntshingila wins Sharjah International Book Fair Prize 2022.
Futhi Ntshingila’s novel They Got To You Too was awarded the Sharjah International Book Fair Prize 2022 on November 3, 2022. The Sharjah International Book Fair is one of the leading festivals in the Middle East and Africa region. At the opening ceremony, the fair typically awards the best books written over the last year…
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Rutanang Book Fair 2017 goes online
The second edition of the Rutanang Book Fair 2017 hosted on May 2-4 will be an exclusively online affair. The Rutanang Book Fair 2016 opened with a blast in the South African town of Tlokwe from April 25-27. It was amazing display of the written word with some of the more well-known names in the…
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Doreen Baingana’s “Tropical Fish” for #LongStoryShort in August
Doreen Baingana is not a new name on this blog. The Ugandan writer emerged in 2005 with her collection of short stories Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe (my review) which established her as the golden girl of Ugandan literature. For that book, she won an AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Prize for…
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A snapshot of the Time of the Writer 2015
It was all happening when a whole bunch of writers converged in Durban, South Africa on 16-21 March. This bunch of writers or is it a gaggle of writers or a bar of writers or wit of writers or a… Anyway, these writers from all corners of the continent were joined by a few from…