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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Category: Tanzania
Ali Hilal Ali and Dotto Rangimoto win Mabati Cornell Prize 2017
The winners of the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature 2017 are Tanzanians Ali Hilal Ali and Dotto Rangimoto. The Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize…
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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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Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Creative Non Fiction 2017 longlist announced
The Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Creative Non Fiction 2017 longlist has been announced. Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Creative Non Fiction was born last…
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Literary events across Africa for March 2017
A list of literary events happening across Africa in March 2017. March 3rd, 2017. Friday. Event: An evening with Amara Nicole Okolo Venue: Goethe Lagos…
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Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize 2016 winners announced
The Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature 2016 Supported by ALAF Limited winners have been announced. They are Idrissa Haji Abdalla and Hussein Wamaywa…
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Images from the African Writer’s Trust and CDEA Dar es Salaam workshop
It was a fun time last week at the Eco Sanaa Terrace, Mikocheni B in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania as a writers and editors’ workshop…
View More Images from the African Writer’s Trust and CDEA Dar es Salaam workshopTanzania’s Abdulrazak Gurnah joins Man Booker 2016 judging panel
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah will be joining the judging panel of the 2016 Man Booker Prize jury that was announced yesterday. Born in Zanzibar, Gurnah’s…
View More Tanzania’s Abdulrazak Gurnah joins Man Booker 2016 judging panelAfrican Writers Trust (AWT) workshop participants announced
The African Writers Trust (AWT) has announced the writers who have qualified for the third Editorial and Publishing Training workshop take place in Kampala, Uganda…
View More African Writers Trust (AWT) workshop participants announcedBN Poetry Award 2015 longlist unveiled
A few days ago I mentioned here that there is a poetry festival about to hit Kampala, Uganda in a few weeks. The festival, the…
View More BN Poetry Award 2015 longlist unveiledThe Writivism Short Story Prize 2015 Longlist
The long list for the 2015 Writivism Short Story Prize, selected from a record 277 entries, was announced last Friday afternoon. The panel of judges…
View More The Writivism Short Story Prize 2015 LonglistTanzania’s Ebrahim Hussein Poetry Prize (Swahili only)
Prof Ebrahim Hussein is the best known Swahili playwright and Tanzania’s most complex literary personality. Kenyans and other Swahili speakers will remember him as the…
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