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Johary Ravaloson’s Return to the Enchanted Island Is the Second Novel from...
In May 2018, we brought news of the first novel by a writer from Madagascar to be translated into English: Naivo’s Beyond the Rice Fields. Malagasy literature will now be receiving the second such...
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15 Pieces to Guide Your Understanding of Xenophobia in (South) Africa
Once again, this September, xenophobic violence was unleashed on other Africans, mostly Nigerians, in South Africa: businesses were closed, shops were looted, and people were killed. The attacks,...
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Hollywood or Nollywood? As Americanah TV Series Goes to HBO, Actress Stella...
The Americanah TV series adaptation, starring Lupita Nyong’o and written by Danai Gurira, has been ordered by HBO Max. The 10-episode show will also have Gurira as showrunner. Based on Chimamanda...
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The Brittle Paper Interview with the Caine Prize 2019 Winner: Lesley Nneka...
In July, Lesley Nneka Arimah received the 2019 Caine Prize, the award’s twentieth edition, for her short story “Skinned,” published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern‘s Issue 53. The Nigerian writer,...
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Enter for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
The 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is open for submissions. An initiative of Commonwealth Writers, the Prize recognizes the best piece of unpublished short fiction between 2,000 and 5,000 words...
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Tracking the Backlash | openDemocracy Wants an Africa Editor for Its Women’s...
openDemocracy is an independent global media platform covering world affairs, ideas, and cultures which seek to challenge power and encourage democratic debates across the world. One of its projects,...
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The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards Are Open for Nominations
The 2019 Brittle Paper Awards are open for nominations. Currently in its third year, the Awards were established to mark our seventh anniversary in 2017. They are our way of highlighting the best...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Sefi Atta Among Guests for the 2019 Felabration,...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sefi Atta will be among the guests at the 2019 Felabration, the annual music festival in memory of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. The week-long event, to be...
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Brittle Paper at the 2019 Lambda Festival: Our 5 Panelists for Sept. 27
As revealed earlier this month, Brittle Paper will be at the 2019 Lambda Literary Festival in Los Angeles, on Friday, September 27. We will be featured in an event focused both on our curatorial work...
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#RevolutionNow | Nigerian Court Orders Release of Detained Sahara Reporters...
Nearly two months after the arrest of Sahara Reporters publisher and 2019 Nigerian presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore on 3 August 2019, the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered his immediate...
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#QueerYourAfricanRead | Be Part of Our Campaign to Highlight African...
To mark our seventh anniversary in 2017, Brittle Paper hosted a conversation on its Facebook page. Themed “Un-Silencing Queer Nigeria: The Language of Emotional Truth,” it featured 14 editor-in-chief...
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Yaa Gyasi’s Second Novel Forthcoming in July 2020 from Alfred A. Knopf
The Ghanaian American author Yaa Gyasi has a new novel coming in July 2020 from Alfred A. Knopf. Titled Transcendent Kingdom, it tells the story of a small Ghanaian family in Alabama, and charts the...
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REPORT | Inside Nigerian Literature’s Sponsorship Problem and the Worsening...
AT THE START OF THE 2010s, a community of Nigerian poets had formed on Facebook, sharing links to poems, offering free critiques. Young and promising, they were in search of opportunities. In 2015,...
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Tendai Huchu Lands Two-Book Deal with Tor, including Novel Compared to TV...
Tor has acquired the rights to two books by the Zimbabwean novelist Tendai Huchu. The publishing press’ editorial director Bella Pagan bought world rights from his agent, Jamie Cowen at Ampersand...
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Attend The New Yorker Festival Masterclass with Teju Cole and Zadie Smith
Tickets are currently on sale for a masterclass with the award-winning writers Teju Cole and Zadie Smith. Themed “On Writing,” it is part of a series of events for the 20th The New Yorker Festival, a...
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Submit to the Young African Poets Anthology, Guest-edited by Itiola Jones &...
The Young African Poets Anthology is a project by the Nigerian writers Ernest Ogunyemi and Fiyinfoluwa Timothy Oladipo, for poets between the ages of 15 and 19. It will be guest-edited by Itiola...
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Nobel Prize in Literature: Ngugi wa Thiong’o Is Bookies’ 4th Favourite for...
It has been a tradition, since the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature went to Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa, for literary people to wonder when it should be Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s turn. And this year, the...
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Opening Speech at the 2019 International Literature Festival | Petina Gappah
Petina Gappah is the author of the short story collections An Elegy for Easterly and Rotten Row, and of the novels The Book of Memory and Out of Darkness, Shining Light. The following is an excerpt...
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Laila Lalami, Scholastique Mukasonga, & Akwaeke Emezi Are Finalists for the...
Moroccan American novelist Laila Lalami, Rwandan novelist Scholastique Mukasonga, and Nigerian novelist Akwaeke Emezi are finalists for the 2019 National Book Awards in the US. The 25 shortlisted...
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Unoma Azuah’s Embracing My Shadow, Nigeria’s First Memoir About Being...
Unoma Azuah, novelist, poet, academic, curator, and one of Nigeria’s leading LGBTQ rights activists, has a new book, her third, coming on 1 March 2020: her debut memoir, to be published by Beaten...
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