by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Apr 26, 2022 | Gist Corner
We are pleased to announce that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Pemi Aguda are among the winners of the 2022 O. Henry Prize. This year’s series is guest-edited by the Booker-nominated author, Valeria Luiselli, and, for the first time, includes lots of stories...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Apr 26, 2022 | Gist Corner
Six African Writers have been shortlisted for the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Five of the writers are on the Africa shortlist, while the sixth writer is a Kenyan-British author Farah Ahmed(shortlisted on the Europe/Canada list). As usual, the shortlist...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Apr 26, 2022 | Gist Corner
Côte d’Ivoire writer, Véronique Tadjo, has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes (Fiction Category) for her novel In the Company of Men. The award ceremony was held at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. The judges described Tadjo’s novel as one that is...
by Salim Yakubu Akko | Apr 8, 2022 | Poems
tears from a gloomy stream, came & took away my little being as i lay down counting the unhatched days i planned to weave into a book of glistening memories. & a razor blade was given to me to shave my head of sorrowful histories interwoven betwixt...
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