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Africans galore on International Dublin Literary Award 2016 longlist

James Murua November 10, 2015 No Comments All Our Names Boy Snow Bird Dinaw Mengestu Helen Oyeyemi Imraan Coovadia International Dublin Literary Award International Dublin Literary Award 2016 Laila Lalami Mandla Langa Marlon James Our Lady of the Nile Rachel’s Blue Scholastique Mukasonga Tales of the Metric System The Moor’s Account The Texture of Shadows Zakes Mda

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…

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Top Names in Washington Post’s top 50 fiction books for 2014

James Murua December 8, 2014 No Comments All Our Names BIRD BOY Dinaw Mengestu Dust Helen Oyeyemi Knopf Riverhead Snow Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

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…

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Ethiopia Fiction

Dinaw Mengestu makes New York Times 100 notable books

James Murua December 3, 2014 1 Comment All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu

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…

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