Tag: Lemn Sissay

  • Margaret Busby, Lemn Sissay are Booker Prize 2020 judges.

    Margaret Busby, Lemn Sissay are Booker Prize 2020 judges.

    Margaret Busby and Lemn Sissay were announced as judges of the Booker Prize 2020 on January 6, 2019. The Booker Prize for Fiction, founded in 1969, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. Some of the previous African winners…

  • Lemn Sissay receives PEN Pinter Prize 2019 in London.

    Lemn Sissay receives PEN Pinter Prize 2019 in London.

    Lemn Sissay received the PEN Pinter Prize 2019 at a ceremony at the British Library in London, UK on October 10, 2019. The PEN Pinter Prize is awarded annually to a writer from Britain, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize winning speech, casts an ‘unflinching,…

  • Dr Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Lemn Sissay for Uganda International Writers Conference 2017

    Dr Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Lemn Sissay for Uganda International Writers Conference 2017

    The third biennial Uganda International Writers Conference 2017 will happen in Kampala, Uganda from 6th to 8th March, 2017. The festival, hosted by the African Writers Trust, will have the theme “contemporary publishing trends in Africa. “ Dozens of writers and publishers from Africa and the diaspora will converge on Kampala, Uganda for what is…