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  • Writers of African descent on UK’s Costa Book Awards 2021 shortlists.

    Writers of African descent on UK’s Costa Book Awards 2021 shortlists.

    Nadifa Mohamed, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Raymond Antrobus, and Kayo Chingonyi, are on the shortlists for the Costa Book Awards announced on November 23, 2021 The Costa Book Awards are literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland given annually since 1971. They were known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2006…

  • Writers of African descent on T.S. Eliot Prize 2021 shortlist

    Writers of African descent on T.S. Eliot Prize 2021 shortlist

    Raymond Antrobus, Kayo Chingonyi, and Kevin Young are on the shortlist for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021 announced on October 14, 2021. The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry was inaugurated to celebrate the UK Poetry Book Society’s 40th birthday and honour its founding poet in 1993. T.S. Eliot, full name Thomas Stearns Eliot had…