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Awards Childrens literature United States Young Adult

NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2023 finalists announced.

Renée Watson, Carole Boston Weatherford, and Rita Williams-Garcia are finalists of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2023. The announcement was made on Monday, June 27, 2022. The NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature and Young Adult Literature is an international literary award given every odd-number year by World Literature Today […]

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Festivals Germany

Participants of Berlin’s African Book Festival 2022 revealed.

The artists taking part in the African Book Festival 2022 at the Nåpoleon Komplex, Berlin, Germany from August 26-28 were revealed on June 5, 2022. The African Book Festival featuring some of the leading writers in Africa and its diaspora has been hosted in Berlin since 2018. It has established itself as a leading meeting […]

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Awards Fiction Trinidad and Tobago

Celeste Mohammed wins CLMP Firecracker Literary Award for Fiction 2022

Celeste Mohammed’s novel Pleasantview was declared the winner of the CLMP Firecracker Literary Award for Fiction 2022 on June 23, 2022. The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) is an organisation of independent literary publishers and magazines founded in the USA in 1967. The CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature are given annually […]