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Rwanda’s Huza Press Prize for Fiction Releases Longlist
The longlist for Rwanda’s 2016 Huza Press Prize for Fiction is out, and there are twenty writers on it. The short stories features are written in both English and French. The US$1,000 Huza Press...
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Opportunity for African Writers | Submit to Dwartonline’s Issue No. 3
Dwartonline is a literary magazine managed by Wale Ayinla and Chukwuebuka Ibeh. They recently announced a call for submissions to Issue Number 3, which will be published in April. Submissions are open...
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Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Wins the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize
Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing has been awarded the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for the best debut novel. This is truly delightful news. Last December, she was shortlisted alongside Brit...
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Chimamanda Adichie Finally Addresses the Beyonce Feminism Controversy
It all started when the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant published the excerpt of an interview in which Adichie was quoted as saying: “Beyonce’s feminism is not my feminism.” Bait for Beyonce fans, bait...
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Yewande Omotoso and Ayobami Adebayo Longlisted for 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize
The 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist has been released, and we are thrilled that Yewande Omotoso and Ayobami Adebayo are on it. Omotoso is there for her third novel, The Woman Next...
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Alain Mabanckou’s 11th Novel Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International...
Star-writer Alain Mabanckou’s eleventh novel, Black Moses, has been longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. Mabanckou has been described by The Guardian UK as “Africa’s Samuel...
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Transition Magazine’s Latest Issue 122 Is a “White A$$holes” Response to Trump
Transition magazine has released its hotly awaited Issue 122 and it’s a confrontation with US president Donald Trump. Titled White A$$holes, the issue tackles the xenophobic and human rights-reversing...
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As Sales Approach the Million Mark, Is Americanah Now Adichie’s Signature Novel?
A few days ago, Adichie’s third novel Americanah won New York City’s “One Book, One New York” initiative, which is aimed at getting all New Yorkers to simultaneously read a particular book. New York...
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Boubacar Boris Diop, Basma Abdel Aziz and Abdellatif Laabi Longlisted for the...
Thirty-five books have been named on the fiction and poetry longlists of the 2017 Best Translated Book Prize. On the 25-strong fiction list are Senegalese author Boubacar Baris Diop’s novel Doomi...
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Here Are the Buzzed-About Novels at the 2017 London Book Fair | Plus the...
The Big Book of the Year buzz of the 2017 publishing season has mostly settled around reports of the $65 million advance received by the Obamas from Penguin Random House. At the London Book Fair,...
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NLNG Prize-shortlisted Playwright Jude Idada Accuses Nollywood Actress Omoni...
The ANA Prize-winning playwright Jude Idada, whose Oduduwa, King of the Edos was shortlisted for the 2014 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature, has accused Nollywood star actress Omoni Oboli of stealing...
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Opportunity for African Writers | 2017 Short Story Day Africa Prize Opens
The annual Short Story Day Africa Prize is set to open for submissions on June 1, 2017. This year’s theme is “Id.” The winner is to be awarded $800, while the second-placed and third-placed entrants...
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The Winners of the 2017 Whiting Awards Announced
The ten winners of the 2017 Whiting Awards have been announced. Founded in 1985, the Whiting Awards are presented annually to ten promising writers in fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and drama. The...
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Ayobami Adebayo Is the Fourth African Ever To Be Shortlisted for the Baileys...
The 2017 Baileys Prize shortlist was announced yesterday and, to our wild excitement, Ayobami Adebayo’s debut novel Stay with Me is on it. The 28-year-old’s inclusion makes her the fourth African...
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Opportunity for African Writers | The 2018 Golden Baobab Prize Is Open for...
$5,000 is up for grabs as the 2018 edition of the annual Golden Baobab Prize makes its call for submissions. Entries are welcome from professional illustrators and writers of children’s stories across...
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The 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize was announced hours ago, and on the 21-strong list are Diane Awerbuck, Akwaeke Emezi and Kelechi Njoku. Diane Awerbuck, shortlisted for her...
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Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers Wins the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers has won the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award and she is the first African author to do this. The Cameroonian’s debut novel beat competition from Viet Dinh’s After Disasters,...
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The 2017 Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlist Mixes Fiction and Nonfiction
The shortlist for the 2017 Rathbones Folio Prize has been announced and it’s one of a kind: it combines both fiction and nonfiction. Here are the eight shortlisted books for the 20,000-pound prize....
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US-based Author Okey Ndibe Narrates “Irritating Encounter” with Nigeria’s SSS
US-based author Okey Ndibe, known and respected for his incisive, unrelenting criticism of corruption and governmental abuse of power in Nigeria, was yet again held up by the State Security Service at...
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Nigerian Newspaper Premium Times Celebrates 2017 Pulitzer Prize as Part of...
The Pulitzer Committee has announced the winners of its 2017 prizes and the team behind the Panama Papers–led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), McClatchy and Miami...
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