by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Nov 18, 2021 | Gist Corner
Nigerian writer Tochi Onyebuchi is one of the winners of the World Fantasy Awards. Given annually for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year, the awards are overseen by the World Fantasy Convention. The awards are given in several...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Nov 18, 2021 | Gist Corner
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been honored as a Library Lion at the New York Public Library’s annual gala. Each year, “the New York Public Library honors several distinguished individuals for outstanding achievements in their respective fields of arts, culture, letters...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Nov 18, 2021 | Gist Corner
The 2021 winner of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, Meron Hadero, is set to release a collection of short stories. The collection, titled,A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times is forthcoming in May 2022 from Restless Books. In 2020, the collection, which...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Oct 12, 2021 | Gist Corner
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has become the seventh African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature after Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka in 1986, Egypt’s Naguib Mahfouz in 1988, South Africa’s Nadine Gordimer in 1991, South Africa’s J.M. Coetzee in 2003,...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Oct 12, 2021 | Gist Corner
Dear fans of Jordan Ifueko, we bring you good news! Jordan Ifueko’s YA fantasy novel Raybearer is going to be adapted into a series by Netflix. The novel tells the story of a child with a mysterious upbringing. There is no release date yet. The adaptation is still in...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Oct 12, 2021 | Gist Corner
The 2021 shortlists for the Morland Writing Scholarships for African Writers has been announced. This year’s shortlist includes nine Nigerians, four South Africans, two Zambians, one Ghanaian, one Kenyan, one Ugandan, one Namibian, and two Batswana writers. Widely...
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