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Yamen Manai wins the Orange Book Prize in Africa 2022.

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 […]

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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2022 shortlists announced

Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2022 shortlists in literature, Emerging Author, and Children’s-lit Categories were announced on March 17, 2022. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is presented yearly to Arab writers, intellectuals, and publishers as well as young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab cultural, literary and social life. […]

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John Sibi-Okumu feted at Tunisia’s Carthage Theatre Festival 2021.

John Sibi-Okumu was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Carthage Theatre Festival 2021 in Tunis, Tunisia on December 4, 2021. The Carthage Theater Days or Journées Théâtrales de Carthage is a theatre festival hosted by the government of Tunisia since 1983. It happens every two years alternating with the Carthage Film Festival. The festival […]

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Khalil Diallo, Eugène Ébodé, Yamen Manai are Prix Mare Nostrum 2021 finalists.

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 […]

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Amine Al Ghozzi is European Union Prize for Literature 2021 laureate

Amine Al Ghozzi’s Zindali: The Night of 14 January 2011 was announced to be a laureate of the European Union Prize for Literature 2021 on May 18, 2021. The European Union Prize for Literature recognises emerging fiction writers from the European Union and beyond. Engaging the 41 countries participating in the Creative Europe programme of […]

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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2021 winners announced.

The winners in the different categories of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2021 have been announced today, April 22, 2021. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is presented yearly to Arab writers, intellectuals, and publishers as well as young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab cultural, literary and social […]

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International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2021 shortlist announced.

The shortlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2021 was announced on March 29, 2021. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world. Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic creative writing and to encourage the readership of high-quality Arabic literature internationally […]

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Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2021 shortlists announced.

The shortlists in Literature’, ‘Young Author’ and ‘Children’s Literature’  categories of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2021 were announced on March 16, 2021. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is presented yearly to Arab writers, intellectuals, and publishers as well as young talent whose writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched Arab cultural, […]

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International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2021 longlist announced.

The longlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2021 has been announced today, March 1, 2020. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction is the most prestigious and important literary prize in the Arab world. Its aim is to reward excellence in contemporary Arabic creative writing and to encourage the readership of high-quality Arabic literature […]

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Golden Comar Prize 2020 announced in Tunis, Tunisia.

The winners of the Golden Comar Prize 2020 were announced in Tunis, Tunisia on September 22, 2020. The Golden Comar Prize was created in 1997 by the insurance company Compagnie Méditerranéenne d’assurances et de Réassurances (Comar) by Rachid Ben Jemia to support literary creation, and encourage Tunisian writers, especially novelists. The prize which is Tunisia’s […]

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Babishai Haiku Prize 2020 shortlist announced in Kampala.

The shortlist for the Babishai Haiku Prize 2020 was announced in Kampala, Uganda today, Friday, September 25, 2020. The Babishai Haiku Prize organised by the Babishai Niwe Foundation, who also organise the Babishai Niwe Poetry Prize and the Babishai Niwe Poetry Festival, has been running since 2016. The first edition was jointly won by Blessmond […]

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Babishai Haiku Prize 2020 longlist announced in Kampala.

The longlist for the Babishai Haiku Prize 2020 was announced in Kampala, Uganda today, Tuesday, July 14, 2020. The Babishai Haiku Prize organised by the Babishai Niwe Foundation, who also put together the Babishai Niwe Poetry Prize and the Babishai Niwe Poetry Festival, has been running since 2016. The first edition was jointly won by […]

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Orange Book Award in Africa 2020 finalists announced.

The finalists for the Orange Book Award in Africa 2020 were announced on March 5, 2020. The Orange Book in Africa Award was launched in November 2018 to reward a fiction text written in French by an African writer from a publishing house based on the continent. The prize is organised by the African Cultural […]

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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 as and when information becomes available. In 2019, African writing continued to produce festivals new and old to the delight of bibliophiles across the continent. There were many of the […]

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Nine Africans on International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2020 longlist.

There are nine Africans from five countries on the longlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2020 announced on December 17, 2019. The International Prize for Arabic Fiction, given to a novel in Arabic that judges consider to be the best of that year, is considered to be the most prestigious and important literary […]