by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 5, 2021 | Gist Corner
Amazon Studios has won an auction for the screen rights to Akwaeke Emezi’s You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty. Akwaeke’s romance novel was sold in a bidding battle. According to Deadline, the book was auctioned “in the vicinity of high six against low seven...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 5, 2021 | Gist Corner
French-Senegalese author David Diop’s debut novel At Night All Blood is Black has been shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. This is coming days after Diop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize The prize celebrates the best fiction from around the world...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 5, 2021 | Gist Corner
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with over 5,700 active membership in the US and across the globe, is one of the most prestigious learned societies in the world, and also one of America’s oldest learned societies, with the purpose of honoring exceptional...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 5, 2021 | Gist Corner
Yaa Gyasi has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Literature 2021 for her second novel, Transcendent Kingdom.The Women’s Prize for Fiction, started in 1996, is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel...
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