Laila Lalami’s novel The Other Americans is on the fiction longlist for the US National Book Awards 2019 announced on September 20, 2019. The US…
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Scholastique Mukasonga on US National Book Awards 2019 longlist.
Scholastique Mukasonga’s novel The Barefoot Woman is on the longlist for the US National Book Awards 2019 announced on September 17, 2019. The US National…
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Laila Lalami makes US Kirkus Prize 2019 shortlist.
Laila Lalami’s novel The Other Americans is on the shortlist in the Fiction category of the Kirkus Prize 2019 announced on September 17, 2018. Kirkus…
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Akwaeke Emezi on US National Book Awards 2019 longlist.
Akwaeke Emezi’s novel Pet is on the longlist for the National Book Awards 2019 in the Young People’s Literature category announced on September 16, 2019.…
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ArabLit Story Prize 2019 shortlist unveiled.
The shortlist for the ArabLit Story Prize 2019 was announced on Sunday, September 15, 2019. The ArabLit Story Prize is an award celebrating the best…
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Noor Naga is the Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2019 winner.
Noor Naga was announced the Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2019 winner for her manuscript American Girl and Boy from Shobrakheit on September 12, 2019. US-based…
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The Text Book Centre Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature 2019 shortlists announced.
The shortlists for the Text Book Centre Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature 2019 were announced by the Kenya Publishers Association on September 9, 2019. The…
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Siphiwe Ndlovu, Terry Kurgan are Sunday Times Literary Awards 2019 winners.
Siphiwe Ndlovu and Terry Kurgan are the winners of the Sunday Times Literary Awards 2019 announced today, September 6, 2019. The Sunday Times Literary Prize,…
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Nigeria Prize for Literature 2019 shortlist announced in Lagos.
Jude Idada, Dunni Olatunde, and O T Begho are the three writers on the Nigeria Prize for Literature 2019 shortlist announced in Lagos, Nigeria on…
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Yejide Kilanko on Canada’s Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction 2019 shortlist.
Yejide Kilanko is on the shortlist for the Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction 2019 announced on September 3, 2019. The Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction,…
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Prix de la Littérature Arabe 2019 longlist features African writers.
Leïla Bahsaïn, Kaouther Adimi, Mohammed Abdelnabi, and Yasmine Khlat are the African writers on the Prix de la Littérature Arabe 2019 longlist announced on September…
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Mohale Mashigo to judge Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2020.
Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Mohale Mashigo are on the judging panel of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2020 announced today, September 3, 2019. The Commonwealth…
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Exclusive: Caine Prize for African Writing withdraws Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor’s short story.
The Caine Prize for African Writing has withdrawn Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor’s short story All Our Lives, which was on the 2019 shortlist, for “failure to…
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Bernardine Evaristo, Chigozie Obioma on the Booker Prize 2019 shortlist.
Bernardine Evaristo and Chigozie Obioma are on the Booker Prize 2019 shortlist announced today, September 3, 2019. The Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary…
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Nuruddin Farah receives Lee Hochul Literary Prize for Peace 2019.
Nuruddin Farah received the Lee Hochul Literary Prize for Peace 2019 at a ceremony in Seoul, South Korea on August 28, 2019. Nuruddin Farah, one…
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