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Scholastique Mukasonga on UK’s Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2021 Longlist.

Scholastique Mukasonga’s Our Lady of the Nile is on the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2021 announced on October 28, 2021. The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation is an annual prize honoring a translated work by a female author published in English by a UK-based or Irish publisher during the […]

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Scholastique Mukasonga novel “Our Lady of the Nile” now in German.

Scholastique Mukasonga’s novel Our Lady of the Nile which we mentioned as being in film production is now available for readers in German as The Holy Virgin of the Nile. A few days ago we were excited to learn that Scholastique Mukasonga’s novel Our Lady of The Nile was being produced in Rwanda. The award-winning […]

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Scholastique Mukasonga novel “Our Lady of the Nile” in film production.

Scholastique Mukasonga’s novel Our Lady of the Nile is currently in film production and will be in cinemas in 2019. Rwandan Scholastique Mukasonga is an award-winning writer in fiction and nonfiction who writers in French. Her first books were the three memoirs Inyenzi ou les cafards in 2006 (English translation Cockroaches in 2016), La femme […]

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Scholastique Mukasonga on International Dublin Literary Award 2016 shortlist

Scholastique Mukasonga has made the International Dublin Literary Award 2016 shortlist. Also on that list is A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James who won the Man Booker Prize. Mukasonga’s novel Our Lady of the Nile is one of the 10 shortlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award sponsored by Dublin City Council and managed […]

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Africans galore on International Dublin Literary Award 2016 longlist

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 with the winner going home with €100 000. If the winning book is a translation, the author receives €75 000 and the translator €25 000. Just like last year, there […]

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FT/Oppenheimer Fund Emerging Voices shortlists announced

A few weeks ago I talked about this amazing new opportunity for African creatives from the Oppenheimer fund supported by Financial Times. Oppenheimer for those a conglomerate that made their millions in the diamond times while the Financial Times are a leading media voice from Europe. The Emerging Voices awards are aimed at various creative […]

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FT / OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award 2015 long list out

In February I blogged about these FT / OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards where writers, film makers and visual artists would be eligible for cash prizes up to US$40,000 and more goodies. The organisers of the awards covering more than 100 emerging market nations announced have their long lists. The fiction lists have some of our […]

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FT/Oppenheimer Fund Emerging Voices shortlists announced

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