We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Tsitsi Dangarembga, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Krystle Zara Appiah, and Nathacha Appanah. Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga Publisher: Graywolf PressPublication Date: January 17, 2023Genre: Nonfiction, EssaysLanguage: English Where to find it: Graywolf Press Tsitsi Dangarembga Tsitsi Dangarembga’s debut […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga is set to judge the manuscript entries for the US$12,000 Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize 2023. Entries are welcomed from February 1 – 28, 2023. Graywolf Press was founded with limited-edition chapbooks of poetry by Scott Walker in Port Townsend, Washington, USA in 1974. It has grown to become one of the leading […]
The Brittle Paper Persons of the Year 2022 were revealed on Sunday, December 22, 2022. In 2010, Brittle Paper was started by Nigeria-born USA-based academic Ainehi Edoro-Glines as a new voice in an African literary space that was then starting to show itself on the world stage. In 2015, the platform set up the Brittle […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga was given a five-year suspended sentence and a fine at a Harare Court on September 29, 2022. Tsitsi Dangarembga is the author of the Booker Prize longlisted novel This Mournable Body (2018) as well as others in the Tambudzai Trilogy series Nervous Conditions (1988) and The Book of Not (2006). In 2020 she […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga is the main draw at the Artistic Encounters event at Cheche Books, Nairobi on July 9, 2022. The free event also featuring Hana Kefela and Wandiri Karimi runs from 3-5 pm. Tsitsi Dangarembga is one of the most respected and beloved writers in the African literary community. The Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker has […]
The Resonanzen – Schwarzes Literaturfestival curated by Sharon Dodua Otoo, was hosted in Recklinghausen, Germany from May 19-21, 2022. The festival was conducted in German. “Resonanzen – Schwarzes Literaturfestival” (Resonance – A Festival of Black German-Language Fiction) was a cooperation between the Ruhrfestspiele and writer and political activist Sharon Dodua Otoo. It aimed to rethink, […]
The winners of the Windham-Campbell Prize 2022 have been announced today, March 29, 2022. Here are the six writers of African descent who made the list. The Windham-Campbell Prize was established in 2013 with a gift from the late Donald Windham in memory of his partner of 40 years, Sandy M. Campbell. English language writers […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga received the German Book Trade Peace Prize 2021 at a ceremony in Frankfurt, Germany on Sunday, October 24, 2021. The Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (English: Book Trade Peace Prize) is an international peace prize awarded annually by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, an association of German book publishers and book sellers, which runs […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga selected Kakwenza Rukirabashaija as the PEN International Writer of Courage 2021 award. The revelation was made at a ceremony at the British Library, London, UK on Monday, October 11, 2021. The PEN Pinter Prize is awarded annually to a writer from Britain, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth who, in the words […]
Auma Obama will give the lecture at the German Book Trade Peace Prize 2021 ceremony in Frankfurt, Germany on October 24, 2021. The ceremony will include the awarding of the peace prize to Tsitsi Dangarembga. On June 21, Zimbabwean author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga was revealed to be the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels or German […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga has been announced the recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize 2021 by the English PEN today, June 8, 2021. The PEN Pinter Prize is awarded annually to a writer from Britain, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize winning speech, casts an ‘unflinching, unswerving’ […]
PEN International gave its PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression 2021 to Tsitsi Dangarembga on January 13, 2021. PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression is handed out annually to writers who have been persecuted for their work and continue working despite their persecution by PEN International since 2005. Previous winners include Ugandan academic, […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novels Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not were acquired by Faber in an announcement made on November 12, 2020. Nervous Conditions (1988), The Book of Not (2006), and This Mournable Body (2018) are a trilogy that follow the story of Tambudzai, a protagonist that lives through Zimbabwean independence to today’s tribulations. The […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga was appointed the University of East Anglia International Chair of Creative Writing (Africa) on September 29, 2020. Tsitsi Dangarembga is one of the important writers working in the last fifty years. Her debut novel Nervous Conditions (1988) was hailed by Doris Lessing as one of the most important novels of the twentieth century […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Maaza Mengiste, and Brandon Taylor are on the shortlist for the Booker Prize 2020 announced on September 15, 2020. The Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded annually for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. Since it started in 1969, it has […]
