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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Category: Translation
Ayesha Harruna Attah’s “The Hundred Wells of Salaga” now available in French.
Ayesha Harruna Attah’s novel The Hundred Wells of Salaga is now available in French as Les Cent Puits De Salaga. The Hundred Wells of Salaga…
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Scholastique Mukasonga’s “The barefoot woman” available in Spanish.
Scholastique Mukasonga’s The Barefoot Woman was translated into Spanish in 2018. Scholastique Mukasonga is a Rwandan author of the novels Notre-Dame du Nil (2012) (English…
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Eight books by African authors that have been translated in 2019.
We give you eight books by African authors that have been translated into several languages in 2019. Translation is a very important aspect of writing…
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Diekoye Oyeyinka’s “Stillborn” is now “La Douleur du Geant.”
Diekoye Oyeyinka’s 2014 novel Stillborn has gotten a new lease of life in French as La Douleur du Geant (Tears of the Giant). In 2014,…
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Yewande Omotoso is Bottari Lattes Grinzane Award 2019 finalist.
Yewande Omotoso is a finalist for the Bottari Lattes Grinzane Award 2019 for her novel La Signora Della Porta which is the Italian edition of…
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Ken Walibora’s “Siku Njema” now in English.
Ken Walibora’s popular novel in Kiswahili Siku Njema is now available in English with the name This Day. The novel was translated by Dorothy Kweyu…
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Translations: Ayesha Harruna Attah, Koleka Putuma, Akwaeke Emezi.
Translations for work by Ayesha Harruna Attah, Koleka Putuma, and Akwaeke Emezi are either here or in the works. Translations are an important part of…
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Ayobami Adebayo’s “Stay With Me” now in French.
Ayobami Adebayo’s debut novel Stay With Me is now available in French. The book was released in France by Editions Charleston on January 9, 2019.…
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Koleka Putuma poetry collection “Collective Amnesia” now in Spanish.
Koleka Putuma debut poetry collection Collective Amnesia is now available in Spanish. It was translated by Arrate Hidalgo & Lawrence Schimel and published by Flores…
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Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s “Black Star Nairobi” French language edition imminent.
The French language translation of Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s Black Star Nairobi is almost here. Many readers of this blog are familiar with the writing of…
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Scholastique Mukasonga novel “Our Lady of the Nile” now in German.
Scholastique Mukasonga’s novel Our Lady of the Nile which we mentioned as being in film production is now available for readers in German as The…
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Sharjah International Book Fair 2018: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie nonfiction titles now in Arabic.
The Arabic editions of two titles by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie were presented at the Sharjah International Book Fair 2018 on November 7, 2018. The translation…
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Sharjah International Book Fair 2018: Yaa Gyasi’s “Homegoing” now in Arabic.
The Arabic edition of Yaa Gyasi debut novel Homegoing was presented at the Sharjah International Book Fair 2018 on November 4, 2018. The translation of…
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Lesley Nneka Arimah wins Italian Bridge Book Award 2018.
Lesley Nneka Arimah’s short story collection What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky is the recipient of the Italian Bridge Book Award…
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