Translations: Helon Habila, Max Lobe, Koleka Putuma, Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Translations for books by Helon Habila, Max Lobe, Koleka Putuma, and Sarah Ladipo Manyika are currently available for your reading […]
Helon Habila at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 5.
Helon Habila featured at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 5 from Centreville, USA on Sunday, August 2, 2020. He was hosted […]
Helon Habila, Saidiya Hartman on James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020 shortlists.
Helon Habila’s Travellers and Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval are on the shortlists for […]
Grand Prix des Associations Littéraires 2019 finalists announced.
The finalists for the Grand Prix des Associations Littéraires 2019 were announced on May 7, 2020. The Grand Prix des […]
Helon Habila’s “Travellers” for June 6 debut.
Helon Habila’s newest novel Travellers, published by Penguin, will be available starting June 6, 2019. Helon Habila first came to […]
Abantu Book Festival 2018 artist line up unveiled.
The Abantu Book Festival 2018 artist line up was announced on the event’s social media platforms on October 23, 2018. […]
African writers converge for Berlin’s first African Book Festival.
Writers from across the African continent converged on Berlin for the first African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the […]
Jowhor Ile wins the Etisalat Prize for Literature 2016
Jowhor Ile is the winner of the Etisalat Prize for Literature 2016. There was a buzz at the Federal Palace […]
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to headline action packed Ake Festival 2016
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o will be the headline guest at this year’s edition of Ake Festival 2016. Ngugi, who will sit […]
No Africans for Windham Campbell Prize in 2016
There were no Africans in the Windham Campbell Prize selections that were announced earlier in the month. Sob. So every […]
Gillian Slovo and Helon Habila to judge Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2016
Gillian Slovo and Helon Habila are two of those who will be judging the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2016. In […]
Mildred Barya wins Sylt Foundation African Writer´s Residency Award 2015
It official. Ugandan writer and poet Mildred Barya has been selected as the 2015 winner of the Sylt Foundation African […]
Novels of Botswana in English launches in Gaberone; Lauri Kubuitsile in Sweden
A new academic book, Novels from Botswana written in English from 1930 to 2006, was launched at the University of […]
Teju Cole, Helon Habila, and Ivan Vladislavić get paid! #WindamCampellPrize2015
We have a winner or rather a list of winners for the Winham Campbell Prize 2015. And just like last […]
Zimbabwe’s Blessing Musariri wins Crime Fiction Contest
Cordite books is a new, publishing company for genre fiction based in Lagos, Nigeria jointly owned by Parrésia Publishers and […]