Tete Loeper and Asal Dardan are the second set of guests of season 3 of the James Murua Literary LiveStream on Thursday, December 29, 2022, at 18:00 GMT/ 19:00 WAT/ 20:00 CAT/ 21:00 EAT. You can join the stream, brought to you in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse with financial support from the German Federal Foreign […]
Imbolo Mbue’s Puissions-nous vivre longtemps was declared the winner of Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2022 on December 21, 2022. Prix Littéraire Les Afriques is awarded annually to an African or writer of African descent who has written fiction highlighting a human, societal, ideological, political, cultural, economic, or historical issue related to Africa or its diaspora. […]
The Brittle Paper Persons of the Year 2022 were revealed on Sunday, December 22, 2022. In 2010, Brittle Paper was started by Nigeria-born USA-based academic Ainehi Edoro-Glines as a new voice in an African literary space that was then starting to show itself on the world stage. In 2015, the platform set up the Brittle […]
Esi Edugyan and Adjoa Andoh are among the judges of the Booker Prize 2023 announced on December 13, 2022. The Booker Prize for Fiction, founded in 1969, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. Some of the previous winners […]
Fatma Qandil’s Aqfas farigha (Empty Cages) was declared the winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2022 on December 11, 2022. The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature is a literary award for Arabic literature given to the best contemporary novel written in Arabic, but not available in English translation. The winning book is then […]
The new leadership of the African Publishers Network (APNET) will take office in January 2023. Lawrence Njagi will be the new leader of the organisation. The African Publishers Network (APNET) is a pan-African, non-profit, collaborative network that exists to connect African publishing associations in order to exchange information and promote and strengthen indigenous publishing. The […]
Mara Menzies’s Blood and Gold was revealed to be a winner at Scotland’s National Book Awards on Thursday, December 8, 2022. Scotland’s National Book Awards were founded by the Saltire Society to recognise books by “living authors of Scottish descent or residing in Scotland,” or that deal with “the work or life of a Scot […]
The Aspen Words Literary Prize 2023 longlist was announced on December 12, 2022. Here are the writers of African descent on the list. The Aspen Words Literary Prize is an annual award for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture. […]
Noor Naga and Wole Soyinka were honoured at the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize 2022 awards on December 6, 2022. The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize is an annual award presented by The Center for Fiction, a non-profit organization in New York, USA since 2006. It recognizes the year’s best debut novel as […]
Koleka Putuma is among the winners at the Standard Bank Young Artist Awards 2022 announced on December 1, 2022. The Standard Bank Young Artist Awards were established in 1981 to celebrate emerging South African artists who live their personal truth through their art and show exceptional talent in their chosen medium but have not yet […]
Tiya Miles was announced the winner of the 2022 Cundill History Prize for All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake in Montreal, Canada on December 1, 2022 The Cundill History Prize, which recognises and promotes literary and academic achievement in history, was founded by Peter Cundill in 2008. The […]
In our continuing series, we share opportunities for those who wish to submit work be it poetry, prose, or other related arts in December 2022. These callouts are divided into education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies), journals, prizes, and publishers. Education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies). Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study JIAS Annual Writer’s Workshop The Johannesburg Institute for […]
Belal Fadi and James Scanlan were declared winners of the ArabLit Story Prize 2021 on December 1, 2022. The ArabLit Story Prize is an award celebrating the best short stories, in any genre, newly translated from Arabic into English. It was founded by Arablit.org, a leading resource on Arab literature in 2018. Previous winners have […]
Mukoma Wa Ngugi and Melanie Raabe are the first guests of season 3 of the James Murua Literary LiveStream on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at 18:00 GMT/ 19:00 WAT/ 20:00 CAT/ 21:00 EAT. You can join the stream, brought to you in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse with financial support from the German Federal Foreign Office, […]
Moses Abukutsa’s Nalongo was declared the winner of the Kikwetu Flash Fiction Contest 2022 on December 1, 2022. Kikwetu is an annual online literary journal that publishes both new and established writers from East Africa and beyond in English and Swahili. The journal which was started in 2015 announced a contest asking for writers to […]
