Tag: Season of Crimson Blossoms
-
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s “Season of Crimson Blossoms” Tamil translation feted.
The Tamil translation of Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s debut novel Season of Crimson Blossoms was announced as Tamil’s best translation of the year on December 8, 2019. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is well known in African literary circles for the short story collection The Whispering Trees (2012) and the novel Season of Crimson Blossoms (2015). The latter…
-
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s “Season of Crimson Blossoms” now available in German.
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Season of Crimson Blossoms is now available in German. It was translated by Susan Urban and published by Residenz. In 2015, Nigerian journalist and short story writer Abubakar Adam Ibrahim followed his successful 2012 short story collection The Whispering Trees with the novel Season of Crimson Blossoms. The book that gave the…
-
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Meryem Alaoui make Prix Femina 2018 longlist.
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Meryem Alaoui are the two African writers on the Prix Femina 2018 longlist. The Prix Femina was created in 1904, and each year is decided by an all-woman jury. Fourteen translated books made this year’s longlist and two Africa writers make the cut, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and Meryem Alaoui. La saison des…
-
Five kickass African novels that need to be made into movies
We need to see these five kickass African novels beloved by many become movies we can all watch at the movies. Those who attended the recently ended Writivism 2016 must have been pleased to find that they could watch one of the continents most beloved books turned movie; Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of A Yellow Sun.…