Tag: Yaa Gyasi
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UK’s Royal Society for Literature International Writers 2023 announced
Scholastique Mukasonga, Yussef El Guindi, Lorna Goodison, Yaa Gyasi, and Attica Locke announced the new Royal Society of Literature International Writers on November 30, 2023. The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) was founded to “reward literary merit and excite literary talent” in the United Kingdom in 1820. One of its awards is its International Writers…
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Writers of African descent on UK’s Women’s Prize for Literature 2021 shortlist.
Yaa Gyasi, Cherie Jones, and Brit Bennett are on the shortlist of the Women’s Prize for Literature 2021 announced on April 28, 2021. The Women’s Prize for Fiction, started in 1996, is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English and published in the United…
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Edwidge Danticat, Yaa Gyasi are Vilcek Prize 2020 recipients.
Edwidge Danticat and Yaa Gyasi were among the recipients of the Vilcek Prize 2020 announced on February 1, 2020. The Vilcek Foundation was established in 2000 by Jan and Marica Vilcek, immigrants from the former Czechoslovakia to the United States. It awards two prizes annually to immigrants, one in biomedical science and one in a…
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Eight books by African authors that have been translated in 2019.
We give you eight books by African authors that have been translated into several languages in 2019. Translation is a very important aspect of writing that many writers don’t take too seriously. While it is exciting for your book to finally go through the publishing process, one mustn’t forget that it can get a new…
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Sharjah International Book Fair 2018: Yaa Gyasi’s “Homegoing” now in Arabic.
The Arabic edition of Yaa Gyasi debut novel Homegoing was presented at the Sharjah International Book Fair 2018 on November 4, 2018. The translation of the Ghanaian writer’s debut is the work of Rewayat. In 2016, Ghanaian writer Yaa Gyasi made history when her debut novel Homegoing got an advance in seven figures. The novel…
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Africans make International Dublin Literary Award 2018 longlist
The International Dublin Literary Award 2018 longlist was announced today in Dublin today. The Africans in the running for the prize are Mohale Mashigo, Nthikeng Mohlele, Yaa Gyasi, Imbolo Mbue, and Yewande Omotoso. The International Dublin Literary Award, is an international literary award presented each year for a novel written in English or translated into…
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Umutoni, Mbue, Shire, Gyasi, Okorafor make OkayAfrica’s 100 Women list.
Nnedi Okorafor, Louise Umutoni, Imbolo Mbue, Warsan Shire, Yaa Gyasi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Okwiri Oduor made OkayAfrica’s 100 Women list. OkayAfrica is a popular website for Africans on the continent and in the diaspora dedicated to African culture, music and politics. The influential website compiled what it calls “OkayAfrica’s 100 Women;” an influential group…
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Petina Gappah, Yaa Gyasi, Teju Cole for PEN USA literary awards 2017
PEN America announced the finalists for the 2017 PEN America Literary Awards in several categories where US$315,000 is awarded. Those in the running include Petina Gappah, Teju Cole, Yaa Gyasi, Helen Oyeyemi, and Abdellatif Laâbi. PEN American hands out awards in very many categories of writing. The categories that interest us are the PEN/Jean Stein…