by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Mar 17, 2021 | Gist Corner
Romeo Oriogun and Sulaiman Addonia are on this year’s shortlist for the Lambda Awards. Romeo is shortlisted for his debut full-length poetry collection Sacrament of Bodies for the Lambda Award for Best Gay Poetry. Sulaiman Adonnia’s Silence Is My Mother Tongue is a...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Mar 15, 2021 | Gist Corner
Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom is on this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. The longlist of sixteen also includes previous winner Ali Smith. Commenting on Transcendent Kingdom, one of the judges Vick Hope said, “[It] had me in tears, wailing, the most emotional I’ve...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Mar 15, 2021 | Gist Corner
Scholastique Mukasonga has become the first African woman to win the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom. The prize was established in 2008 to recognize “a person or an association, a work or an action which, everywhere in the world – in all fields, law,...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Mar 15, 2021 | Gist Corner
Dear fans of Chinelo Okparanta, you will love this! Chinelo Okparanta has a new novel coming out in 2022. The novel is titled, Harry Sylvester Bird. This is Chinelo’s official work since 2015. Publishers Marketplace describes the novel as being “about a young white...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Mar 13, 2021 | Gist Corner
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s tenth novel, Afterlives, is on the 2021 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. The Walter Scott Prize is named in honor of Scottish historical novelist Walter Scott. The prize celebrates quality pieces of historical writing in the English...
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