by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Jun 10, 2021 | Gist Corner
David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black, translated from French by Anna Moschovakis, has been announced as the winner of the International Booker Prize 2021. Diop has become the first French author to win the award. Diop lives in France, where he is a...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 26, 2021 | Gist Corner
The RSL Christopher Bland Prize was launched in 2018 by the Bland family and friends, with the RSL in memory of Sir Christopher Bland who died in 2017. Sir Christopher is best known for his leadership in broadcasting, the arts and business. He didn’t start writing...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 26, 2021 | Gist Corner
The longlists for the 2021 Nommo Awards are out. The awards were introduced by the African Speculative Society in order celebrate writing known in other markets as magical realism, Sci-Fi, horror, and graphic novels in 2016. Here are the longlisted writers and their...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 26, 2021 | Gist Corner
Ghanaian writer, Margaret Busby, is the recipient of this year’s London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award. The London Book Fair is one of the oldest literary events which was first hosted in 1971. since 2004, the fair hands out the Lifetime Achievement Award which...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 26, 2021 | Gist Corner
Nigerian writer, Kasimma, has a debut short story collection coming out in November this year. The collection is titled, All Shades of Iberibe. The book is coming from Sandorf Passage. The collection, according to the publishers, explores “sexuality, the influence of...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 26, 2021 | Gist Corner
Afreecan Read is thrilled to announce that Tunisian writer and author of the novel Zindali: The Night of 14 January 2011, Amine El Ghozzi, has been announced as Laureate of the European Union Prize for Literature 2021. The European Union Prize was founded in order to...
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