Oyinkan Braithwaite and Akwaeke Emezi have made the longlist of the UK’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 announced on March 4, 2019. The Women’s Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious literary prizes. It is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written […]
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 any publishing ecosystem to thrive. Here is some work that you can expect to see in translation either on your bookshelf or in the not too distant future. The Hundred […]
Akwaeke Emezi is on the Wellcome Book Prize 2019 longlist announced on February 5, 2019, for her debut novel Freshwater. The Wellcome Book Prize is an annual award, open to new works of fiction or non-fiction that have a central theme that engages with some aspect of medicine, health or illness. This can cover many […]
Akwaeke Emezi and Nafkote Tamirat are the African writers on the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2018 list announced on November 19, 2018. The New York Times is one of the most important newspapers in the United States. Apart from being a publication that covers news, they came up with the New York […]
Akwaeke Emezi has made the US National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” 2018 honour list for the novel Freshwater. The announcement was made on September 24, 2018. The National Book Foundation, best known for its National Book Awards, announces some of the best young writers in the United States with its “5 Under 35” awards. […]
Akwaeke Emezi novel Freshwater is set to be unveiled in Nigeria by Farafina in May 2018. This is the Commonwealth Prize winner’s debut novel. Akwaeke Emezi announced herself to the African literary community when she won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 for her story Who Is Like God. The short story which was […]
