Tag: Leila Mottley
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American Book Awards 2023 winners announced.
The winners of the American Book Awards 2023 were announced on Tuesday, August 22, 2023. Here are the writers of African descent on the list. The American Book Awards, from the Before Columbus Foundation, were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. The purpose of…
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Diaty Diallo, Leila Mottley among Prix Médicis 2022 finalists
Diaty Diallo and Leila Mottley are on the finalists lists of the Prix Médicis 2022 announced on Tuesday, October 11, 2022. The Prix Médicis was founded by Gala Barbisan and Jean-Pierre Giraudoux to recognise a novel, a story, a collection of short stories whose author begins or does not yet have a notoriety corresponding to…
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Noviolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett on Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 longlist
Noviolet Bulawayo, Leila Mottley, and Percival Everett are on the longlist for The Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 announced today, July 26, 2022. The Booker Prize for Fiction, worth £50,000, is a literary prize awarded annually for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. Since it started…