by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jun 22, 2021 | Gist Corner
Short Story Day Africa Prize recognizes the best short story submitted for its themed anthology. The prize is worth $1,100. The 2021 anthology is themed “Disruption.” Here are the winners for this year’s prize : Kenyan Idza Luhumyo for “Five Years Next Sunday” (Winner...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jun 22, 2021 | Gist Corner
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), is an international peace prize awarded annually by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, an association of German book publishers and book sellers, which runs the...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jun 10, 2021 | Gist Corner
Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga has been awarded the 2021 PEN Pinter Prize. The award is given annually to a writer from Britain, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize winning speech, casts an ‘unflinching,...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jun 10, 2021 | Gist Corner
Maaza Mengiste’s Il Re Ombra (The Shadow King) which was translated by Anna Nadotti, has won the 2021 Premio Gregor von Rezzori 2021. The prize is assigned by an international jury to the best work of foreign fiction translated in Italy and published...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jun 10, 2021 | Gist Corner
In partnership with Women’s Initiative for Sustainable Empowerment and Equality (WISE) and Initiative Sankofa d ’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO), Nigerian writer Unoma Azuah is curating a non-fiction anthology for queer women from West Africa. The project is titled...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jun 10, 2021 | Gist Corner
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s House of Stone is One Read book of the month. One Read is a mobile application, by Nigeria’s Sterling Bank and Ouida Books. It aims at creating a community of readers by promoting writers, publishers and other players in the African book...
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