Tag: Namwali Serpell

  • Namwali Serpell’s “The Old Drift” wins Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020.

    Namwali Serpell’s “The Old Drift” wins Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020.

    Namwali Serpell‘s The Old Drift was announced the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020 on September 23, 2020. The annual Arthur C. Clarke Award, founded in 1987, is given for the best science fiction novel first published in the UK during the previous year. Some previous winners of the award, established with a…

  • Namwali Serpell’s “The Old Drift” on Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020 shortlist.

    Namwali Serpell’s “The Old Drift” on Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020 shortlist.

    Namwali Serpell‘s The Old Drift is on the shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020 announced on June 18, 2020. The annual Arthur C. Clarke Award is given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year founded in 1987. The award judges are a voluntary body…

  • Namwali Serpell on The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2020 shortlist.

    Namwali Serpell on The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2020 shortlist.

    Namwali Serpell is on the shortlist for The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2020 announced on June 7, 2020. The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award is the world’s richest prize for a single short story, with £30,000 going to the winner. Co-founded in 2010 by Lord Matthew Evans of EFG Private Bank and…

  • Grand Prix des Associations Littéraires 2019 finalists announced.

    Grand Prix des Associations Littéraires 2019 finalists announced.

    The finalists for the Grand Prix des Associations Littéraires 2019 were announced on May 7, 2020. The Grand Prix des Associations Littéraires (Grand Prix of Literary Associations) were launched in Cameroon in 2013. They were then defined as bilingual English-and-French literary prizes awarded on the proposals of literary associations, especially in the Research and Belles-Lettres…

  • Namwali Serpell on The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2020 longlist.

    Namwali Serpell on The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2020 longlist.

    Namwali Serpell is on the longlist for The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2020 announced on May 3, 2020. The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award is the world’s richest prize for a single short story, with £30,000 going to the winner. Co-founded in 2010 by Lord Matthew Evans of EFG Private Bank and…

  • Namwali Serpell, Marlon James win Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2019.

    Namwali Serpell, Marlon James win Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2019.

    Namwali Serpell and Marlon James were announced winners at the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2019 on Friday, April 17, 2020. The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were founded in 1980 by Art Seidenbaum, a Los Angeles Times book editor from 1978 to 1985. They are awarded annually in Best Biography, Best Current Interest winner,…

  • Namwali Serpell is Windham-Campbell Prize 2020 recipient.

    Namwali Serpell is Windham-Campbell Prize 2020 recipient.

    Namwali Serpell was announced a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize 2020, alongside seven other writers, on Thursday, March 19, 2020. The Windham-Campbell Prize was established with a gift from the late Donald Windham in memory of his partner of 40 years, Sandy M. Campbell in 2013.  English language writers from anywhere in the world are…

  • Namwali Serpell, Tope Folarin on US’s Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2019 longlist.

    Namwali Serpell, Tope Folarin on US’s Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2019 longlist.

    Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift and Tope Folarin’s A Particular Kind of Black Man are on the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2019 longlist announced on July 24, 2019. The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize is an annual award presented by The Center for Fiction, a non-profit organization in New York, USA. It…

  • Namwali Serpell’s tour of “The Old Drift” in Lusaka, Zambia.

    Namwali Serpell’s tour of “The Old Drift” in Lusaka, Zambia.

    Namwali Serpell did a series of events to promote her debut novel The Old Drift in Lusaka, Zambia from June 12-15, 2019. Namwali Serpell’s debut novel The Old Drift, published by Penguin Random House, made its appearance on the African literary scene on March 26, 2019. The book has been getting rave reviews from everyone…

  • Namwali Serpell’s “The Old Drift” to make March debut.

    Namwali Serpell’s “The Old Drift” to make March debut.

    Namwali Serpell’s debut novel The Old Drift, published by Penguin Random House, will be available for your reading pleasure on March 26, 2019. Namwali Serpell first emerged to many followers of African writing when she was listed among the Africa 39; writers under forty likely to make an impact on our industry in the future.…

  • Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 guest list unveiled.

    Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 guest list unveiled.

    The guest list for Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 has been unveiled. The festival curated by writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga runs from April 4-7, 2019. In 2018, writers from across Africa and its diaspora converged on Berlin for the African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the headliner. The festival organised by InterKontinental and…

  • Meet the judges for the Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018

    Meet the judges for the Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018

    Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Namwali Serpell, Ainehi Edoro-Glines, and Mulenga Kapwepwe are the judges of the Kalemba Short Story Prize 2018. In October last year we posted a call out about a new prize for Zambian writers called the Kalemba Short Story Prize. The new prize would award the best unpublished short fiction of between 2,000…

  • Caine Prize Workshop 2016 in Zambia concludes

    Caine Prize Workshop 2016 in Zambia concludes

    The annual Caine Prize Workshop ended yesterday at the Chaminuka Lodge near Lusaka, Zambia. The participants included previous winners of the Caine Prize, those shortlisted as well as some who would be considered future stars. The writers at the workshop included 2015 Caine Prize winner, Namwali Serpell (Zambia), 2014 winner Okwiri Oduor (Kenya), 2013 winner…

  • YouTube Videos from the Storymoja Festival 2015

    So I have finally uploaded all the videos that I took at the Storymoja Festival 2015 that happened this month. The videos were taken over a two day period on the Saturday and Saturday with a Samsung J7 which I am still learning how to use. Therefore the quality of the videos isn’t world class…

  • Caine Prize for African Writing winner announced tonight

    Caine Prize for African Writing winner announced tonight

    It’s that day ladies and gentlemen. Tonight The Caine Prize for African Writing will be announcing its sixteenth winning writer at a kick-ass dinner at Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries. The Caine Prize is named in celebration of the late Sir Michael Caine, former Chairman of Booker plc, who was Chairman of the ‘Africa 95’ arts festival…