Nnedi Okorafor, Maaza Mengiste, Kwei Quartey, Elisabeth Thomas, and Alyssa Cole are finalists of the Edgar Awards 2021 announced on January 25, 2021. Mystery Writers…
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Meron Hadero is Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing 2020 winner.
Meron Hadero’s short story collection manuscript Preludes was announced the winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing 2020 on November 18, 2020.…
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Amharic Day at Afrolit Sans Frontières African Languages Edition.
Amharic was the featured language at the Afrolit Sans Frontières African Languages Edition on Saturday, October 31, 2020. Afrolit Sans Frontières, a virtual literary festival…
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Ready Set Go Books publishes “Letter From a Plow Nation.”
Ready Set Go Books is publishing Letter From a Plow Nation written by Dr Worku Mulat, and illustrated by Daniel Getahun today, October 9, 2020.…
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Tsitsi Dangarembga, Maaza Mengiste, Brandon Taylor on Booker Prize 2020 shortlist.
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Maaza Mengiste, and Brandon Taylor are on the shortlist for the Booker Prize 2020 announced on September 15, 2020. The Booker Prize for…
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Maaza Mengiste-edited Addis Ababa Noir anthology launches.
Addis Ababa Noir, a new anthology edited by Maaza Mengiste and published by Akashic Books, launched at the Strand Books, New York, USA, on August…
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Tsitsi Dangarembga, Maaza Mengiste, Kiley Reid, Brandon Taylor on Booker Prize 2020 longlist.
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Maaza Mengiste, Kiley Reid, and Brandon Taylor are on the longlist for the Booker Prize 2020 announced on July 27, 2020. The Booker…
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“Songs We Learn from Trees,” a pioneering Ethiopian poetry anthology launches.
Songs We Learn from Trees, an Ethiopian poetry anthology edited by Chris Beckett and Alemu Tebeje, which styles itself as the “first in the English…
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A snapshot of Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 2.
Season 2 of Afrolit Sans Frontières was hosted by African writers from cities all over the world over the Internet from April 20-27, 2020. The…
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Maaza Mengiste’s novel “The Shadow King” is going to the big screen.
Maaza Mengiste’s second novel The Shadow King is going to the big screen with Kasi Lemmons as director. Maaza Mengiste is the author of the…
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A snapshot of Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 1.
Afrolit Sans Frontières was hosted by African writers from cities around the world from Monday, March 23 to Monday, March 30, 2020. The Afrolit Sans…
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Maaza Mengiste stars at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 1
Maaza Mengiste was the first novelist to feature on the third day of Afrolit Sans Frontières on Instagram Live from Zurich, Switzerland on March 25,…
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Maaza Mengiste is American Academy of Arts and Letters 2020 winner.
Maaza Mengiste was announced as one of the winners of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2020 in New York, USA on March 11,…
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Maaza Mengiste, Namwali Serpell are Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2019 finalists.
Maaza Mengiste and Namwali Serpell are finalists at the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2019 announced on February 19, 2020. Also on the list are…
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African Literary Festivals you can attend in 2020.
Covering the length and breadth of the African continent, here is a list of literary festivals you can attend in 2020. It is regularly updated…
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