Caleb Femi and Nicole Sealey won in their categories at the Forward Prizes for Poetry 2021 in London, UK on Sunday, October 24, 2021. The Forward Prizes for Poetry are awards for poetry, presented annually at a public ceremony in London, UK. They were founded by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga received the German Book Trade Peace Prize 2021 at a ceremony in Frankfurt, Germany on Sunday, October 24, 2021. The Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (English: Book Trade Peace Prize) is an international peace prize awarded annually by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, an association of German book publishers and book sellers, which runs […]
La Grande Rentrée Littéraire De Kinshasa 2021 is set to run in Kinshasa, D.R. Congo from October 29 – 31, 2021. The rentrée littéraire is a practice adopted by French publishers, characterised by a large number of new book releases (all styles and genres mixed together) and takes place every year between late August and […]
Boris Boubacar Diop was revealed to be the winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2022 on Tuesday, October 26, 2021. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award sponsored by the United States’ University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, World Literature Today. The prize for adult literature, worth $50,000, […]
