Momtaza Mehri, Theresa Lola, and Hiwot Adilow are the joint Brunel African Poetry Prize 2018 winners. The three share the 3,000 UK pounds prize money.…
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Category: Ethiopia
Nafkote Tamirat’s “The Parking Lot Attendant” now available
The Parking Lot Attendant by Ethiopian writer Nafkote Tamirat and published by Macmillan Publishers is now available for your reading pleasure. Nafkote Tamirat is an…
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Eight poets make Brunel African Poetry Prize 2018 shortlist
The Brunel African Poetry Prize 2018 shortlist was announced on March 12, 2018 with eight poets making the cut from the hundreds submitted. The Brunel…
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Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature 2018 open for submissions
Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature 2018 is now open for submissions from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The Burt Award for African Young…
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Short Story Day Africa Prize 2017 longlist announced
The Short Story Africa Prize 2017 has announced the 21 Africans making the cut for one of the continent’s most respected literary prizes. Short Story…
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Elshadai Tesfaye wins Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature All-Stars 2017
Elshadai Tesfaye is the winner of the Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature All-Stars 2017. The announcement was made at a ceremony at the…
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Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature 2017 All Stars unveiled
The shortlist for the Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature 2017 All Stars has been unveiled. The Burt Award was started in Tanzania in…
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Short Story Day Africa, Goethe Institut announce ID Flow Workshop Participants
Short Story Day, Goethe Institut have announced participants to take part in ID Flow Workshop across the continent. The workshops will be facilitated by Efemia…
View More Short Story Day Africa, Goethe Institut announce ID Flow Workshop ParticipantsAfricans galore on International Dublin Literary Award 2016 longlist
The International Dublin Literary Award, formerly known as the IMPAC Award, is the richest in the world for a single work of fiction in English…
View More Africans galore on International Dublin Literary Award 2016 longlistMengestu Dinaw and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor on Folio Prize long list
The Folio Prize is the first major English language book prize open to writers from around the world published in the UK. The prize is…
View More Mengestu Dinaw and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor on Folio Prize long listTop Names in Washington Post’s top 50 fiction books for 2014
I really should have flagged this Top Fiction Books by the Washington Post in November but I somehow missed out on it. I really just…
View More Top Names in Washington Post’s top 50 fiction books for 2014Dinaw Mengestu makes New York Times 100 notable books
The New York Times has unveiled their 100 notable books of 2014 and there is novel by a name readers of this blog are familiar…
View More Dinaw Mengestu makes New York Times 100 notable booksDinaw Mengestu in the running for Kirkus Prize 2014
Ethiopian born writer Dinaw Mengestu is in the running for this years Kirkus Prize as his book All Our Names was among the finalists for…
View More Dinaw Mengestu in the running for Kirkus Prize 2014Storymoja 2012 guest writer Dinaw Mengestu wins ‘Genius grant’
Its been a good time for some in the writing business. Ng’ang’a Mbugua recently won the Wahome Mutahi Literature award for his excellent Different Colours…
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