by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 15, 2021 | Gist Corner
Othuke Umukoro has won the Brunel International African Poetry Prize. The prize worth £3,000, was started in 2012 to revitalize African poetry and encourage a new generation of poets to get an international platform. It was founded by Booker Prize winner Bernardine...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 15, 2021 | Gist Corner
Rémy Ngamije has emerged as the winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for African region. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction in English in the Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 15, 2021 | Gist Corner
Afreecan Read is thrilled to announce that Faber & Faber has acquired the rights to Angolan Writer and Musician, Kalaf Epalanga’s, debut novel. The novel is titled Whites Can Dance Too. It tells the story of Kalaf “an African musician stopped at the Norwegian...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 15, 2021 | Gist Corner
Maaza Mengiste’s short story, Dush, Ash, Flight which was published in the collection Addis Ababa Noir (Akashic Books), has won the 2021 Edgar Awards for Best Short Story. The prize is named after the American writer, Edgar Allan Poe. The awards are annually awarded...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 15, 2021 | Gist Corner
Ayobami Adebayo has a new book which is coming out in 2022. The novel, according to a report by Kirkus Review, is titled A Spell of Good Things. The novel centers on “two families in Nigeria at opposite ends of the economic spectrum, whose lives collide when political...
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