Tag: Maryse Condé
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Book Digest: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Dorothy Koomson, Shugri Said Salh, Maryse Condé.
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest feature. Today our focus is books from Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Dorothy Koomson, Shugri Said Salh, Maryse Condé. The Sex Lives of African Women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, Dialogue BooksPublication Date: July 22, 2021Genre: NonfictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Penguin Random…
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Maryse Condé is Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca 2021 recipient
Maryse Condé was awarded the Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca 2021 by the Institut de France (Fondations) on May 17, 2021. The Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca (Cino Del Duca World Prize) is an international literary award that recognizes an author whose work constitutes, in a scientific or literary form, a message of modern humanism.…
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Maryse Condé headlines Ake Festival 2020 that kicks off on October 22.
Maryse Condé is the headliner for the Ake Festival 2020 which runs out of Lagos, Nigeria from October 22 – 25, 2020. The Ake Arts & Book Festival, popularly known as the Ake Festival, has been running in Nigeria since 2012. For the last eight years, lovers of books and the arts have attended book…
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Maryse Condé, Stella Gaitano are English PEN Translation 2020 winners.
Maryse Condé and Stella Gaitano are among the nineteen winners of the English PEN Translation Awards 2020 announced on June 10, 2020. English PEN is the founding centre of PEN (Poets, Essayists, Novelists) International, a worldwide writers’ association with 145 centres in more than 100 countries. One of its activities is the translation awards which…