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Yamen Manai wins the Orange Book Prize in Africa 2022.

Yamen Manai’s novel Bel Abîme was declared the winner of Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique 2022 at a ceremony in Dakar, Senegal on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique (Orange Book Prize in Africa) was set up to reward a fiction text written in French by an African writer from […]

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Khalil Diallo, Eugène Ébodé, Yamen Manai are Prix Mare Nostrum 2021 finalists.

Khalil Diallo, Eugène Ébodé and Yamen Manai were revealed to be finalists of the Prix Mare Nostrum 2021 on September 30, 2021. Mare Nostrum – Une Méditerranée autrement (English: Our sea – A Mediterranean otherwise), is an association of women and men, united by the desire to promote “Mare Nostrum” within the Occitanie Region, on […]

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Orange Book Award in Africa 2019 finalists announced.

The six finalists for the Orange Book Award in Africa 2019 were announced on March 7, 2019. In November 2018, a new literary prize called the Orange Book in Africa Award aimed at French- speaking Africa was launched. This prize would reward a fiction text written in French by an African writer and published by […]