Tag: Tochi Onyebuchi
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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu on Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2023 shortlist
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu’s novel Drinking from Graveyard Wells is on the shortlist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2023 announced on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) was a US-American author with a large body of work in prose, poetry, and nonfiction as well as in translation that earned…
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Writers of African descent among World Fantasy Awards 2021 winners
Alaya Dawn Johnson, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Celeste Rita Baker were revealed to be the winners in their categories at the World Fantasy Awards 2021 on November 7, 2021. The World Fantasy Awards have been awarded annually for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year, organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention,…
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Tochi Onyebuchi wraps up the first day of Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 3.
Tochi Onyebuchi wrapped up day one of Season 3 of Afrolit Sans Frontières on Africa Day, May 25, 2020. He was hosted by Mohale Mashigo. Afrolit Sans Frontières, a virtual literary festival for writers of African origin, started as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic international lockdown in March. It has had two iterations with…
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Nommo Awards 2018 winners announced at Ake Festival 2018.
The Nommo Awards 2018 winners were announced at the opening ceremony for the Ake Festival 2018 on October 26. They are Tade Thompson, Kwabena Ofei, Setor Fiadzigbey, Wole Talabi, and Tochi Onyebuchi. The Nommo Awards were introduced by the African Speculative Fiction Society in 2017 to cast a much needed focus on “different” writing. This…
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African Speculative Fiction Society’s Nommo Awards 2018 shortlists announced
The Nommo Awards 2018 shortlists for the best novel, novella, short story and graphic novel by an African this year have been announced. The Nommo Awards are an initiative of the African Speculative fiction Society. The Nommo Awards were introduced by the African Speculative Fiction Society to cast a much needed focus on the writing…