Scholastique Mukasonga’s novel The Barefoot Woman is on the longlist for the US National Book Awards 2019 announced on September 17, 2019. The US National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two-lifetime achievement awards to authors every November. The awards are handed out in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and […]
Laila Lalami’s novel The Other Americans is on the shortlist in the Fiction category of the Kirkus Prize 2019 announced on September 17, 2018. Kirkus Reviews is a US book review magazine, founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus, that publishes previews of books prior to their publication. The Kirkus Prize was created to celebrate the […]
Ibadan: The Literary Festival 2019 happened at the Wole Soyinka Art Theatre in the Nigerian city of Ibadan on August 24, 2019. Ibadan is famous as one of the centres of African literature in the last century. The city was thus an ideal backdrop to the one-day literary shindig that was Ibadan: The Literary Festival […]
Gerry Sikazwe’s poetry collection Words That Matter was published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing on March 31, 2019. Gerry Sikazwe is a poet whose work has been featured in publications like Nthanda Review, AfricanWriter.com, Dissident Voice, Scarlet Leaf Review, The Global Zambian Magazine, Times of Zambia (Sunday Edition), and Spillwords.com. He is also a founding […]
Akwaeke Emezi’s novel Pet is on the longlist for the National Book Awards 2019 in the Young People’s Literature category announced on September 16, 2019. The US National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two-lifetime achievement awards to authors every November. The awards are handed out in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, […]
