Tag: Romeo Oriogun
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Romeo Oriogun is Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award 2025 finalist
Romeo Oriogun is among the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award 2025 finalists announced on Monday, January 20, 2025. The Tufts poetry awards—based at USA-based Claremont Graduate University and given for poetry volumes published in the preceding year—are not only two of the most prestigious prizes a contemporary poet can receive, they also come with hefty purses:…
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Romeo Oriogun on Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2024 shortlist
Romeo Oriogun’s poetry collection The Gathering of Bastards is on the shortlist for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2024 announced on July 1, 2024. The Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry is awarded by Arrowsmith Press, in conjunction with Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and The Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Worth $2,000, it is awarded to…
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US National Book Critics Circle Awards 2023 finalists announced.
The National Book Critics Circle Awards 2023 finalists have been announced today, Thursday, January 25, 2024. Here are the writers of African descent on the lists. The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) bestows its awards honouring the best books published in the past year in the United States since 1974. The finalists are nominated, evaluated,…
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Book Digest: David Diop, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, Romeo Oriogun, Kacen Callender
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from David Diop, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, Romeo Oriogun, and Kacen Callender. Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxDate: September 7, 2023Genre: FictionLanguage: FrenchWhere to find it: Click here. David Diop David Diop…
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NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2022 shortlist announced.
The longlist for the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2022, the richest on the continent, has been announced today, Friday, August 26, 2022. The Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored annually by oil firm NLNG, was started to honour Nigerian authors in the four genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and children’s literature in 2004. The prize…
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Romeo Oriogun’s poetry collection “Sacraments of Bodies” out on March 1.
Romeo Oriogun’s poetry collection Sacraments of Bodies, published by the University of Nebraska Press, is set to make its appearance on March 1, 2020. Romeo Oriogun first came to the attention of many followers of the African literary community when he won the Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2017. The judges at the time…
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Lagos International Poetry Festival 2017 for November #lipfest2017
The Lagos International Poetry Festival 2017 is set to happen from November 1-5, 2017. The festival theme is “Bridges from Walls.” In 2015, a team of Lagosians led by founder Efe Paul Azino hosted the Lagos International Poetry Festival at Freedom Park the home of the arts in commercial hub of the West African country.…
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Romeo Oriogun wins Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2017
Romeo Oriogun from Nigeria is the winner of the Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2017. The Brunel International African Poetry Prize now in its fifth year is a major poetry prize is aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa. It is open to African poets worldwide who have not yet published…
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Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Ten poets have made the Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2017 shortlist announced today. The Brunel International African Poetry Prize launched in 2012 is a major annual poetry prize of £3000, aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa. Now in its fifth year, the Prize is sponsored by Brunel University London…