Tag: Maaza Mengiste
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Maaza Mengiste, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr are Swedish International Literature Prize 2023 finalists
Maaza Mengiste and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr were declared finalists of Sweden’s Kulturhuset Stadsteatern’s International Literature Prize on Wednesday, September 20, 2023. Kulturhuset Stadsteatern’s is Stockholm’s arts and culture centre hosting live theatre, exhibitions, libraries, seminars, events, and a cinema. One of its flagship events since 2016 is the Internationella Litteraturpris (English: International Literature Prize) awarded…
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Maaza Mengiste, Alyssa Cole win at Edgar Awards 2021.
Maaza Mengiste and Alyssa Cole won in their categories at the Edgar Awards 2021 announced on Thursday, April 29, 2021. Mystery Writers of America is the premier organization in the USA for mystery writers, professionals allied to the crime-writing field, aspiring crime writers, and those who are devoted to the genre. It is dedicated to…
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African, African American finalists at Edgar Awards 2021.
Nnedi Okorafor, Maaza Mengiste, Kwei Quartey, Elisabeth Thomas, and Alyssa Cole are finalists of the Edgar Awards 2021 announced on January 25, 2021. Mystery Writers of America is the premier organization for mystery writers, professionals allied to the crime-writing field, aspiring crime writers, and those who are devoted to the genre. It is dedicated to…
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Patreons: Maaza Mengiste Livestream, Ayesha Haruna Attah Podcast
Hello Patreons. This week I have a podcast featuring Ayesha Harruna Attah and the Livestream that ran yesterday featuring Maaza Mengiste and Antje Rávik Strubel. Podcast episode 18: Ayesha Harruna Attah Ayesha Harruna Attah is a Ghanaian-born Senegal-based writer of the books Harmattan Rain (2008), Saturday’s Shadow (2015), and The Hundred Wells of Salaga (2018).…
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Maaza Mengiste, Antje Rávik Strubel for James Murua Literary LiveStream
Maaza Mengiste and Antje Rávik Strubel are the guests at the James Murua Literary LiveStream on Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 18:00 GMT/ 19:00 WAT/ 20:00 CAT/ 21:00 EAT. You can join the stream, brought to you in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse with financial support from the German Federal Foreign Office, on Facebook, YouTube, or…
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Scholastique Mukasonga launches “Igifu” at Transnational Series Presents.
Scholastique Mukasonga launched Igifu at Transnational Series Presents on September 30, 2020. She was in conversation with Maaza Mengiste with translation by Omar Berrada. Scholastique Mukasonga is a Rwanda-born France-based writer who came to international fame with the publication of her 2006 memoir Inyenzi ou les Cafards. It was followed by her other memoirs La femme…
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Tsitsi Dangarembga, Maaza Mengiste, Brandon Taylor on Booker Prize 2020 shortlist.
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Maaza Mengiste, and Brandon Taylor are on the shortlist for the Booker Prize 2020 announced on September 15, 2020. The Booker Prize for Fiction 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 in 1969, it has…
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Tsitsi Dangarembga, Maaza Mengiste, Kiley Reid, Brandon Taylor on Booker Prize 2020 longlist.
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Maaza Mengiste, Kiley Reid, and Brandon Taylor are on the longlist for the Booker Prize 2020 announced on July 27, 2020. The Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded annually for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom since 1969. It has been…
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To Speak Europe In Different Languages Literary Award judges unveiled.
Mihret Kebede, Shadi Rohana, Maaza Mengiste, Sumia Jaama, and Abraham T. Zere will judge the “To Speak Europe In Different Languages” Literary Award. The announcement was made on June 13, 2020. At the end of the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (In Exile) in February, a new prize was announced called “To Speak Europe In Different Languages.”…
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Maaza Mengiste, Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda, Remy Ngamije, Bisi Adjapon, and Chike Frankie Edozien at Afrolit Sans Frontières
Maaza Mengiste, Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda, Remy Ngamije, Bisi Adjapon, and Chike Frankie Edozien wrapped up day 1 of Season 2 of Afrolit Sans Frontières from several cities around the world on April 20, 2020. Afrolit Sans Frontières, a new initiative for writers of African origin, was started in March as a result of the Covid-19…
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor kicks off Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 2.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor was the first guest of Season 2 of Afrolit Sans Frontières streaming on Instagram from Nairobi, Kenya on April 20, 2020. She was hosted by Maaza Mengiste. Afrolit Sans Frontières, a new initiative for writers of African origin, was started in March as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic international lockdown. Like…
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Maaza Mengiste’s novel “The Shadow King” is going to the big screen.
Maaza Mengiste’s second novel The Shadow King is going to the big screen with Kasi Lemmons as director. Maaza Mengiste is the author of the novels, Beneath The Lion’s Gaze (2010) and The Shadow King (2019). Her work can also be found in The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Granta, the Guardian, the…
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Maaza Mengiste, Zukiswa Wanner co-curate Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 2.
Maaza Mengiste and Zukiswa Wanner are the co-curators of Season 2 of Afrolit Sans Frontières starting April 20-27, 2020. Afrolit Sans Frontières, a new initiative from writers of African origin, was started as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic international lockdown in March. With curation by novelist and publisher Zukiswa Wanner, 16 writers from 10…
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Maaza Mengiste stars at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 1
Maaza Mengiste was the first novelist to feature on the third day of Afrolit Sans Frontières on Instagram Live from Zurich, Switzerland on March 25, 2020. Afrolit Sans Frontières is an initiative from writers of African origin curated by Zukiswa Wanner. Sixteen writers from 10 African countries are sharing their work from 15 different cities…
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Afrolit Sans Frontieres Virtual Literary Festival kicks off on March 23.
The Afrolit Sans Frontieres Virtual Literary Festival, an initiative of writers of African origin curated by Zukiswa Wanner, kicks off on the Internet from March 23 – 30, 2020. In the last few weeks, the world has become unrecognisable as the Corona Virus pandemic reaches across the planet. Activity has ground to a halt in…