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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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Awards South Africa

Sunday Times Literature Prize 2015 shortlists out

James Murua May 17, 2015 No Comments A Man of Good Hope Arctic Summer Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-apartheid Struggle Damon Galgut DF Malan and the Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism Elaine Proctor Imraan Coovadia Jacana Media Jacob Dlamini Jonathan Ball Publishers Jonny Steinberg Lindie Koorts Lost and Found in Johannesburg Maria Phalime Mark Gevisser October Postmortem: the Doctor Who Walked Away Quercus Sunday Times Literature Prize Sunday Times Literature Prize 2015 Tafelberg Tales of the Metric System The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga The Savage Hour Umuzi Zoë Wicomb

The Sunday Times Literary Awards are one of richest prizes for writers on the continent with winners in the two categories going home with R100…

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A snapshot of the Time of the Writer 2015

James Murua April 8, 2015 2 Comments Carol Campbell Charlotte Otter Craig Higginson Dilman Dila Ekow Duker Futhi Ntshingila Imraan Coovadia Jacob Dlamini Kirsten Miller Mandla Langa Margaret Von Klemperer MJ Mngadi Mzilikazi wa Afrika Noviolet Bulawayo Nthikeng Mohlele Ousmane Diarra (Mali)Sue Nyathi Thando Mgqolozana Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho ZP Dala

It was all happening at the from when a whole bunch of writers converged at Durban, South Africa on 16-21 March. This bunch of writers…

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