by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 10, 2021 | Gist Corner
The shortlist for the 2021 Short Story Day Africa Prize has been announced. Short Story Day Africa Prize awards a total of $1,100 worth of cash prizes on up to three writers for a single short story ($800 for first place, $200 for second place, and $100 for third...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 10, 2021 | Gist Corner
.The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives written by Lola Shoneyin has been selected as the featured text on the YouTube #AfricaReads challenge which featured over forty Africans from across the continent who read the novel. The team at Google Africa recently kicked off...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 10, 2021 | Gist Corner
First awarded in 2016, the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize is an international prize that supports and celebrates the best adventure writing. The prize is named after South African novelist Wilbur Smith. It’s open to writers of any nationality, writing in...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 10, 2021 | Gist Corner
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s, The First Woman, has been shortlisted for the 2021 UK’s Royal Society of Literature Encore Award. The Encore Award was first presented in 1990 to celebrate the achievement of outstanding second novels. The Royal Society of Literature has...
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...
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...
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