Tag: Noviolet Bulawayo
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Noviolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett on Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 shortlist.
Noviolet Bulawayo, and Percival Everett are on the shortlist for The Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 which has just been announced. The Booker Prize for Fiction, worth £50,000, 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,…
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Noviolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett on Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 longlist
Noviolet Bulawayo, Leila Mottley, and Percival Everett are on the longlist for The Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 announced today, July 26, 2022. The Booker Prize for Fiction, worth £50,000, 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…
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NoViolet Bulawayo, Simphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Malebo Sephodi for Johannesburg Institute Fellowships.
The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study Writing Fellowships announced its fellows for 2020 on October 26, 2019. The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) is a joint initiative of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Its purpose is to promote advanced research in the humanities and natural sciences, beyond the…
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Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to headline action packed Ake Festival 2016
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o will be the headline guest at this year’s edition of Ake Festival 2016. Ngugi, who will sit in conversation with Okey Ndibe about his life and work, will be joined by a galaxy of stars in the African literary space. This year’s edition is themed “Beneath this Skin.’ 15-19 November 2016 are…
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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…
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The Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Non Fiction 2016 call out
The Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Non Fiction is an annual award for non-fiction by emerging African writers resident in Ghana administered by the Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE). This award is open to Ghanaian writers but in future will have other African nationals. So who is this Koffi Addo y0u ask? Nana Koffi…
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Etisalat Prize for Literature 2015: Let’s go people
The time has arrived ladies and gentlemen. The judges of the Etisalat Prize for Literature 2015 were announced and now they are waiting for the books to judge. The organising committee of the awards now in their third year has made a call out for debut novels from African writers. So if you are African…
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A snapshot of the Time of the Writer 2015
It was all happening when a whole bunch of writers converged in Durban, South Africa on 16-21 March. This bunch of writers or is it a gaggle of writers or a bar of writers or wit of writers or a… Anyway, these writers from all corners of the continent were joined by a few from…
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Noviolet, Chimamanda and Aminatta for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an international literary award for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At 100,000 Euros it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world. The long list for this year’s awards were announced yesterday and there are…
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The Sunday Salon with Noviolet, Jennings and Yewande
The Sunday Salon. It came to us in 2008 as a new space Nairobians could enjoy listening to literature apart from the Kwani Open Mic which had become a bit crazy with the drinking in that gig going into the wee hours of the next morning. In that year, we had writers like Muthoni Garland,…
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A Smashing Writivism 2014
The last week saw one of the biggest gatherings of African writers on this continent of ours for a long while as the Writivism Festival 2014 rolled into Kampala, Uganda. There were also writing master classes, panels, speeches, and a variety of talks from Ellen Banda-Aaku, Samuel Kolawole, Zukiswa Wanner, literary agent David Godwin, Ella…
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Noviolet Bulawayo, Karen Jennings and Yewande Omotoso for Nairobi
Noviolet Bulawayo, Karen Jennings, and Yewande Omotoso who were shortlisted for the Etisalat Prize for African Literature will be in Kenya next week. They will be here as part of their three-city promotion tour which was one of the prizes that they went home with when they were shortlisted. For those who want to interact…