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Sunday Times 2018 longlist

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The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2018 longlist announced

James Murua April 3, 2018 1 Comment A Gap in The Hedge A Handful of Earth Accident Dawn Achmat Dangor Angela Makholwa Asylum B&N Barbara Boswell Bare Ground Bird-Monk Seding Blackbird Books Chwayita Ngamlana Clockwork Books Dancing The Death Drill Deep South Dikeledi Dominique Botha Fiona Melrose Fiona Snyckers Francois Smith Fred Khumalo Garisch Grace Human and Rousseau I Am Pandarus If I Stay Right Here Imitation Ingrid Winterbach Jacana Media Johan Vick Louw Johannesburg Jonathan Ball Publishers Leonhard Praeg Lesego Rampolokeng Little Brown Marcus Low Maxine Case MF Books Joburg Michael Heyns Micheil Hyens Modjadji Books Neil Sonnekus New Times Paige Nick Pan Macmillan Penguin Books Peter Harris Picador Africa Rehana Rossouw Selling LipService Simon Bruinders SJ Naude Softness of the Lime Son/Seun Spire Tafelberg Tammy Baikkie Thabiso Mofokeng The Blessed Girl The Camp Whore The Last Stop The Shallows The Third Reel UKZN Press Umuzi Unpresidented

The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2018 longlist for the Barry Rouge Fiction Prize was announced on April 1, 2018. In 1989, South African newspaper The…

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9mobile Prize for Literature 2018 shorlist

Awards Fiction Nigeria South Africa

Ayobami Adebayo, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Marcus Low make 9mobile Prize for Literature 2017 shortlist

James Murua January 31, 2018 1 Comment 9mobile Prize for Literature 9mobile Prize for Literature 2018 Asylu Ayobami Adebayo Etisalat Lesley Nneka Arimah Marcus Low Stay with Me What it Means When a Man Falls Down from the Sky

The 9mobile Prize for Literature 2017 shortlist has been announced and the three writers in the running for Africa’s richest prize for a debut novel…

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9Mobile Prize Literature 2017 longlist

Awards Fiction Nigeria South Africa Zimbabwe

9mobile Prize for Literature 2017 longlist announced

James Murua December 8, 2017 1 Comment 9mobile Prize for Literature 9mobile Prize for Literature 2018 A Casualty of Power Anietie Isong Asylum Ayobami Adebayo Being Kari Bronwyn Law-Viljoen Canongate Books David Cornwell Doreen Baingana Harry Garuba Jacaranda Books Kachifo Limited Kwela Books Lesley Nneka Arimah Like it Matters Marcus Low Mukuka Chipanta Odafe Atogun Penguin Random House Picador Africa Qarnita Loxton Radio Sunrise Siphiwo Mahala Stay with Me Taduno’s Song The Printmaker Weaver Press What it Means When a Man Falls Down from the Sky

The nine books on the longlist for the 9mobile Prize for Literature 2017, formerly the Etisalat Prize, have been announced. The 9mobile Prize for Literature…

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