Tag: Noviolet Bulawayo

  • Abantu Book Festival 2016 announces confirmed guests

    Abantu Book Festival 2016 announces confirmed guests

    The Abantu Festival 2016 set for 06 – 10 December in Soweto, South Africa have announced some of their guests and the lineup is epic. The Abantu Book Festival with Thando Mgqolozana as director and Panashe Chigumadzi as curator is organised under the theme, Our Stories. The new festival celebrates African stories through written and…

  • Yogi S.Y Tetteh wins Koffi Addo Prize for Non Fiction 2016

    Yogi S.Y Tetteh wins Koffi Addo Prize for Non Fiction 2016

    Accra, Ghana based yoga instructor S.Y Tetteh is the winner of the Koffi Addo Prize for Non Fiction 2016. The Koffi Addo Prize for Non Fiction 2016 was announced by the judges led by NoViolet Bulawayo working with Yewande Omotoso and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah. The essays in the running for the prize were Lost Futures…

  • Yewande Omotoso new book picked up by Random House imprint

    Yewande Omotoso new book picked up by Random House imprint

    Yewande Omotoso‘s new book The Woman Next Door, an endearing story of two women living in Cape Town, South Africa, is ready for the world. In the new book, Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours and sworn enemies. They share hedge and hatred and prune both with a zeal and vim that belies the…

  • Noviolet Bulawayo takes home Etisalat Prize 2014

    Noviolet Bulawayo takes home Etisalat Prize 2014

    Zimbabwean writer Noviolet Bulawayo is the winner of the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Africa Literature in a ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria last night. This has been a long journey to recognize the best African writer on the African continent in the last year. The process had gone through a rigorous process starting with a long…

  • Etisalat Writers Prize 2014 shortlist out

    Etisalat Writers Prize 2014 shortlist out

    They announced the shortlist for the Etisalat Prize for African Literature yesterday. Those in the running for Africa’s first major Pan-African Literature prize are the following writers; These names were chosen by judges Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola the Chair who is also a professor at the University of Witwatersrand, Sarah Ladipo Manyika a writer and…

  • Inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature Longlist announced

    Inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature Longlist announced

    The long list for the inaugural Etisalat for Literature, the first pan-African prize open solely to debut fiction writers of African citizenship, is out. The longlist for the prize judged by Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola the Chair of Judges and Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, Sarah Ladipo Manyika a writer and academic, and Billy…

  • Another year, another Storymoja Hay Festival.

    Another year, another Storymoja Hay Festival.

    Like the night turns into day and day back into day another Storymoja Hay festival was upon us. This year the venue moved to the National Museum at the Museum Hill. Awesomeness. The Storymoja Hay Festival just seems to be getting better by the year. This year’s edition started on Thursday at the museum with…