Tsitsi Dangarembga was given a five-year suspended sentence and a fine at a Harare Court on September 29, 2022. Tsitsi Dangarembga is the author of the Booker Prize longlisted novel This Mournable Body (2018) as well as others in the Tambudzai Trilogy series Nervous Conditions (1988) and The Book of Not (2006). In 2020 she […]
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Binyavanga Wainaina, Monique Severin, Nike Campbell, and Yessoh G.D. How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina Publisher: PenguinPublication Date: September 29, 2022Genre: Nonfiction, EssaysLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Penguin. Binyavanga Wainaina Binyavanga Wainaina was a seminal author […]
Foday Mannah was declared the winner of the Mo Siewcharran Prize 2022 in a ceremony in London, UK on September 28, 2022. The Mo Siewcharran Prize was established to discover new underrepresented talent in memory of Nielsen BookData’s former director of marketing and communications Mo Siewcharran. It is co-founded and sponsored by her husband John […]
The shortlists for the Diverse Book Awards 2022 were announced on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. Here are the writers of African descent who made the cut. The Diverse Book Awards were created by Abiola Bello and Helen Lewis, founders of The Author School to celebrate the diversity of writing in the UK in 2019. The […]
Estelle-Sarah Bulle, Emmelie Prophète, Imbolo Mbue, Fann Attiki, and Osvalde Lewat are finalists of Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2022. The announcement was made on September 19, 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 […]
Diadié Dembélé’s Le Duel Des Grands-Mères was declared the winner of Prix de la Vocation 2022 on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. The Prix Littéraire de la Vocation (English: Literary Vocation Award) was established by the Marcel-Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation to support a young writer working aged 18 to 30 years in 1976. Some of the previous winners […]
Djaili Amadou Amal’s Les Impatientes won the Prix des Grands Monts 2022 in Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise, France on September 24, 2022. Prix des Grands Monts is a literary prize set up to highlight the best in literature by Com’MonLy, the library network of the Monts du Lyonnais since 2020. For the 3rd edition, they opted to focus […]
The Lagos International Poetry Festival 2022 will be hosted in venues in Lagos, Nigeria as well as online from October 27 – 31, 2022. The Lagos International Poetry Festival brings together poets, writers, artists, and thinkers from across the world to Lagos for a week of conversations, readings, performances, workshops and adventure. Founded in 2015 […]
Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Khal Torabully are on the shortlist for the Sarah Maguire Prize 2022 announced on September 22, 2022. The Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation is an international biennial award for the best book of poetry in English translation by a living poet from beyond Europe. It was established in the […]
Scholastique Mukasonga’s The Barefoot Woman is on the longlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022 announced on September 22, 2022. The Baillie Gifford Prize rewards excellence in non-fiction writing, bringing the best in intelligent reflection on the world to new readers. The award, founded in 1999 as the Samuel Johnson Prize, covers all non-fiction in […]
Scholastica Moraa was declared the winner of the Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2022 at a ceremony in Thika, Kenya on September 24, 2022. Adaoro Raji and Beverley Ann Abrahams came second and third respectively. The Kendeka Prize for African Literature is awarded for the best piece of an unpublished short story either fiction or […]
Edem Awumey, Yahia Belaskri, Driss Jaydane, Osvalde Lewat, and Tierno Monenembo are finalists of Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2022. The announcement was made on September 22, 2022. Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie (English: Five Continents Prize of the Francophonie) was established by the International Organization of the Francophonie in 2001. […]
The finalists for the US National Book Awards 2022 were announced from September 14 – 16, 2022. Here are the writers of African descent who made the list. The US National Book Awards are literary awards from the Northern American nations National Book Foundation established in 1936. They are conferred in the categories of fiction, […]
Comme une reine by Ernis (Lontsi Clémence) was declared the winner of Prix Voix d’Afriques 2022 on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. Prix Voix d’Afriques is a literary award aimed at bringing young French-language authors and authors from the African continent first hosted in 2020. It is aimed at highlighting new African literary voices, novels reflecting […]
Blaise Ndala’s Dans le ventre du Congo is a finalist at Prix du livre d’Ottawa 2022. The announcement was made on September 20, 2022. Prix du livre d’Ottawa and Ottawa Book Award, founded in 1986, is a Canadian literary award presented by the City of Ottawa to the best English and French language books written […]
