The longlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2023 was announced on January 24, 2023. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction is the most prestigious literary prize in the Arab world. Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic creative writing and to encourage the readership of high-quality Arabic literature internationally through the […]
Warsan Shire, Okwiri Oduor, Arinze Ifeakandu, and Derek Owusu are on the longlist for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2023 announced today, January 26, 2023. Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer who became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death at the age of 39. In his […]
The winners of the Ghana Association of Writers Literary Awards 2022 were announced in a ceremony in Accra on January 21, 2023 The Ghana Association of Writers Literary Awards, first held in 1987, were instituted to honour Ghanaian literary excellence and to celebrate the outstanding efforts made by writers. They went on a hiatus until […]
The longlists for the Pen America Literary Awards 2023 were announced Friday, January 20, 2023. Here are the writers of African descent who made the lists. PEN America is an organisation that works to defend and celebrate free expression in the United States through the advancement of literature and human rights since it was founded […]
