Mia Couto, Nathan Harris, and Brandon Taylor are on the premières selections of the Prix Femina 2022 announced on Thursday, September 8, 2022. The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse (today known as Femina) in 1904. It is decided each year by an exclusively […]
Nathan Harris, Caleb Azumah Nelson, and Brandon Taylor are on the shortlist for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2022 announced today, March 31, 2022. Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer who became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death at the age of 39. The International […]
The longlist for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2022 has been revealed today, February 3, 2022. Here are the writers of African descent in the running. Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer who became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death at the age of 39. The […]
There are eight writers of African descent on the longlists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2022 announced on October 18, 2021. The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were established to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in […]
Nadifa Mohamed and Nathan Harris are on the longlist for the Booker Prize for fiction 2021 announced on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Also on the Booker Dozen list are South Africans Damon Galgut and Karen Jennings. The Booker Prize for Fiction, worth £50,000, is a literary prize awarded annually for the best original novel written […]
