Tag: Lauri Kubuitsile
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Gaborone Book Festival hosts World Book Day 2018 celebrations.
The Gaborone Book Festival Trust hosted a Book Night on World Book Day 2018 to celebrate the transformative power of books on April 23, 2018. The night featured four Batswana authors in moderated conversations followed by book sales and signings. World Book Day is an annual event organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and…
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New Gaborone Book Festival 2018 for September
The first edition of the new Gaborone Book Festival 2018 is set to happen on September 21-22. The festival organisers are doing a trial run for their big event with a gig on World Book Day on April 23. Book Festivals by nature bring readers, authors, and thinkers of all ages and backgrounds together, united…
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Lauri Kubuitsile wins big at Sharjah International Book Fair 2017
The Scattering by Botswana author Lauri Kubuitsile has won the prize for best international fiction at this year’s Sharjah International Book Fair 2017, the world’s third largest book fair, in the United Arab Emirates. The news was announced and the prize was accepted by the author’s daughter at an opening ceremony in Sharjah on 1…
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Shadreck Chikoti’s Imagine Africa 500 anthology out on April 30
The Imagine Africa 500 anthology featuring some of the continent’s leading names in speculative fiction this month. It will make its online debut on April 30. In November last year, I spoke about a workshop hosted by the Story Club in Malawi was facilitated by Billy Kahora, Jackee Batanda and Beatrice Lamwaka. Those at the workshop were…
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Donald Molosi on winning Bessie Head Short Story Awards.
The winner of this year’s Bessie Head Short Story Awards 2015 is Donald Molosi his story The Biggest Continent. He gets the first place prize money of 2 000 pula (about R2 900) courtesy of Diamond Educational Publishers. He was awarded ahead of Siyanda Mohutsiwa came second for And Then We Disappeared into Some Guy’s…
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Calling all writers in Botswana! (Water Flow Writer Workshop)
I recently blogged about this year’s anthology that Short Story Day Africa has been working on called Water. Those who enter the competition are up for some good stuff and the chance to be in one of the coolest anthologies around. Apart from being in the anthology and being in the Caine Prize for African…
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Novels of Botswana in English launches in Gaberone; Lauri Kubuitsile in Sweden
A new academic book, Novels from Botswana written in English from 1930 to 2006, was launched at the University of Botswana Bookstore in Gaborone, Botswana last week. The book is written by Dr. Mary Lederer. Professor Arua E. Arua of the UB’s Department of English was the master of ceremonies. You can read more about…
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Cynthia Jele short story to kick off Long Story Short Project
There are so many events in and around the African Literature sphere in the very recent. One of the ones which I have been tracking and that interests me very much is the Long Story Short project which is the brainchild of Yewande Omotoso. Omotoso for the uninformed most recently was announced as one of…
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Writivism 2015 kicks off with creative writing workshop in Botswana
Botswana writer Lauri Kubuitsile and actor Donald Molosi were the folks who started off the biggest edition of Writivism 2015 with a creative writing workshop at the National Museum in Gaborone, Botswana.Kenyans will fondly remember Lauri Kubuitsile for the period when she was in town for the 2012 of Storymoja Hay Festival. Kubitsile who is…
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Writivism Creative Writing Workshop 2015 attendees announced
It’s all happening at the Ake Festival today. Our friends from Writivism have announced the writers who will be attending the Writivism 2015 workshops in cities around the continent. The writers who were shortlisted will attend workshops led by Dilman Dila (Kampala), Zukiswa Wanner and Anne Ayeta Wangusa (Dar es Salaam), Yewande Omotoso and Saaleha…
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The Return of the Storymoja Hay Festival
The Storymoja Hay Festival is back. The event is set to hit Nairobi on 13-16th September at the National Museum of Kenya. I first attended the festival in 2009 when it was but a thing at the Impala grounds. During those ages when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the phones of choice were Blackberry (smart)…