Brittle Paper Persons of the Year — in African Literary Culture
2020 has been an incredibly difficult year for all kinds of reasons. But it has also been a year of remarkable cultural accomplishments, during which many in the African literary community stepped up...
View ArticleShould African Publishers Be Worried About Penguin Random House?
ViacomCBS has sold its 96-year-old publishing company, Simon & Schuster, to Penguin Random House for 2.2 billion dollars. Once the deal closes in January 2021, Penguin Random House is set to...
View ArticlePhotos from the Book Launch of Wole Soyinka’s New Novel Chronicles of the...
Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka took the world by surprise when he announced the release of a new novel last month. His first in 48 years, the 524-pages novel, titled Chronicles of the Happiest People...
View ArticleCover Reveal | Son of the Storm, Okungbowa’s West African Empires-Inspired...
Earlier this year, we reported that Suyi Davies Okungbowa had a new trilogy forthcoming with Orbit Books. Well guess what — the cover for the first book in the trilogy has been revealed! Okungbowa’s...
View Article“Content Warning: Everything” is Akwaeke Emezi’s Debut Poetry Collection
Akwaeke Emezi has a new poetry collection forthcoming from American independent publisher Copper Canyon Press. Emezi announced on Twitter: My poetry debut currently titled CONTENT WARNING: EVERYTHING...
View ArticleOluwatobiloba Ajayi Wins Inaugural Nigeria Prize for Difference and Diversity
Oluwatobiloba Ajayi, an advocate for children living with cerebral palsy, has been announced winner of the inaugural The Nigeria Prize for Difference and Diversity. The announcement was made on...
View ArticleBloomsbury, Pantheon, to Publish Wole Soyinka’s New Novel Chronicles of the...
Bloomsbury and Pantheon will be publishing Professor Wole Soyinka’s newest novel, Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth. The Bookseller reports that Bloomsbury acquired UK and Commonwealth rights...
View ArticleChigozie Obioma “Truly Truly Honored” to Be on 2021 Booker Prize Judging Panel
Chigozie Obioma is on the recently announced judging panel of the 2021 Booker Prize. The chair of this year’s committee is Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff. Joining Obioma on the committee are former...
View ArticlePeace Adzo Medie’s His Only Wife to Be Adapted for Screen
Peace Adzo Medie’s His Only Wife is being adapted for screen! Rights for Medie’s debut novel were recently acquired by American film production companies SK Global and The Mazur Kaplan company....
View ArticleIrenosen Okojie’s “Grace Jones” Now Available in Portuguese, Shona and Yoruba
The 2020 AKO Caine Prize-winning short story “Grace Jones” by Nigerian writer Irenosen Okojie was recently translated into Portuguese, Shona and Yoruba. The project is the first of its kind in the...
View Article“Stories and Empathy in a Time of Crisis”| Watch Ato Quayson’s African...
The African Studies Association (ASA) held its annual conference virtually this year, and its president is none other than Brittle Paper’s named Academic of the Year, Ato Quayson. Quayson recently...
View ArticleA Handful of Dates, Based on Tayeb Salih’s Short Story, Wins Best Shorts Film...
A Handful of Dates, a short film produced by the Sudan Film Factory and based on Tayeb Salih’s short story of the same title, has won an Award of Excellence at the Best Shorts Film Competition. The...
View ArticleAkwaeke Emezi Announces Forthcoming Memoir, Dear Senthuran
Nigerian writer Akwaeke Emezi recently announced on Twitter that their first work of nonfiction, a memoir, will be published by Riverhead Books in Summer 2021. The memoir is titled Dear Senthuran: A...
View ArticleNew Black Panther Anthology to Feature Stories by Temi Oh, Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Fans of Temi Oh, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, and Black Panther! You’ll be thrilled to learn that these two authors are contributors to the forthcoming anthology Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda. Oh and...
View ArticleWatch Chimamanda Adichie’s Acceptance Speech for 2020 Africa Freedom Prize
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was recently awarded the 2020 Africa Freedom Prize by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF). The FNF is an independent organization that works to promote liberal...
View ArticleBernardine Evaristo Is the First Black Female President of Major UK Drama School
Bernardine Evaristo, OBE, has been appointed president of Rose Bruford College, her alma mater. She is the first black woman to hold this position. This latest honor comes after Evaristo’s recent...
View ArticleBookstagrammer Kobby Ben Ben Announces Debut Novel, No One Dies Yet
Ghanaian writer and bookstagrammer Kobby Ben Ben announced on social media that his debut novel, No One Dies Yet, will be published by Europa Editions in August 2021. No One Dies Yet is set in 2019,...
View ArticleMasande Ntshanga Continues Genre-Bending Work in Third Book
Masande Ntshanga has just released a new book, titled Native Life in the Third Millennium. In an interview with Blacklight Media, Ntshanga describes Native Life in the Third Millennium as “an...
View ArticleThe Relationship Between Power and Self-Revision in Coetzee’s Waiting for the...
The twenty-first episode of Professor Ato Quayson’s vlog Critic.Reading.Writing is up! In this episode titled “J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians: Moral Residue & the Affliction of Second...
View ArticleHappy Holidays to All Lovers of African Literature!
2020 is coming to a close, and what a year it has been! We at Brittle Paper would like to thank all our readers for your unwavering support throughout a year that, as eventful as it has been, was...
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