Boubacar Boris Diop is the headliner of the Neustadt Lit Fest 2022 which happens virtually and in-person at the University of Oklahoma, USA from October 24-26, 2022. The Neustadt Lit Fest is a literary and cultural festival, established by World Literature Today executive director Robert Con Davis-Undiano in 2004. It focuses on the Neustadt Prize […]
The finalists for Prix Ivoire for African Literature in French, the leading literary prize from Cote D’Ivoire, were announced on August 13, 2022. The Prix Ivoire is an award created by Akwaba Culture, an Ivorian law association in 2008. Open to writers from Africa and its Diasporas, the winner gets a two million CFA francs […]
The first edition of Festival international de littérature de Dakar (Filid) was hosted in Dakar, Senegal from June 29-July 2, 2022. The festival theme was “Literature and conflict.” The Festival international de littérature de Dakar (Filid) (Dakar International Literature Festival) made its debut in venues in Senegal with writers, literary critics, publishers, men and women […]
Yamen Manai’s novel Bel Abîme was declared the winner of Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique 2022 at a ceremony in Dakar, Senegal on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique (Orange Book Prize in Africa) was set up to reward a fiction text written in French by an African writer from […]
Tabara Niang, Maguèye Toure, and Elaz Ndongo Thioye won in their categories at the Prix National Cénacle du Livre Senegal at the Pullman Hotel in Dakar. The announcement was made at a grand celebration of Senegalese literature on Saturday, June 11, 2022. Prix National Cénacle du Livre Senegal is an initiative from Cénacle des Jeunes […]
Ibrahim El Khalil Diallo’s L’Odyssée des Oubliés is the featured book for the series “Virtually Yours,” which runs on Saturday, June 11, 2022. He is hosted by Goethe-Institut Senegal and will be moderated by Renee Edwige Dro. Virtually Yours is a regional project of Goethe-Institut Sub Saharan Africa, a series of online discussions with contemporary […]
The finalists for Prix Voix d’Afriques 2022 were announced on Friday, April 15, 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 the situation of a country, political, economic, […]
Khalil Diallo’s L’Odyssée des Oubliés is on the shortlist for the Prix Littéraire Jesus Paradis 2022 announced on January 11, 2022. Prix Littéraire Jesus Paradis, named after the restaurateur Jesus Borges and the bar he runs in the tenth arrondissement of Paris, was launched in 2019. Handed out for a sophomore novel, it is organized […]
Emmelie Prophete, Lussunzi Vita Mbala, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Jean D’Amerique, Elizabeth Colomba and Aurélie Levy were revealed to be Prix littéraire Fetkann Maryse Condé winners. The announcement was made at Café de Flore, Paris, France on November 24, 2021. The Prix littéraire Fetkann Maryse Condé rewards the works, collections, research works or essays which promote […]
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s novel La plus Secrète Mémoire Des Hommes is the winner of Prix Goncourt 2021, France’s most prestigious literary award. The announcement has been made today, November 3, 2021. The Prix Goncourt is given by the French Académie Goncourt to the author of “the best and most imaginative prose work of the year”. […]
Boris Boubacar Diop was revealed to be the winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2022 on Tuesday, October 26, 2021. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award sponsored by the United States’ University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, World Literature Today. The prize for adult literature, worth $50,000, […]
Louis-Philippe Dalembert and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr were revealed to be Prix Goncourt 2021 finalists today, October 26, 2021. The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the French Académie Goncourt to the author of “the best and most imaginative prose work of the year”. Moroccan-born Leila Slimani won the prize in 2016 […]
Khalil Diallo, Eugène Ébodé and Yamen Manai were revealed to be finalists of the Prix Mare Nostrum 2021 on September 30, 2021. Mare Nostrum – Une Méditerranée autrement (English: Our sea – A Mediterranean otherwise), is an association of women and men, united by the desire to promote “Mare Nostrum” within the Occitanie Region, on […]
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s La Plus Secrète Mémoire Des Hommes features on Prix Renaudot 2021 first selection announced on September 9, 2021. Prix Renaudot is a French literary prize awarded to the author of an outstanding original novel published during the previous year. It created in 1926 by ten art critics awaiting the results of deliberation […]
Nathacha Appanah and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr were revealed to on the second selection for Prix Fémina 2021 on September 29, 2021. The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse (today known as Femina) in 1904. It is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. […]
