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 fiction from around the world...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 5, 2021 | Gist Corner
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with over 5,700 active membership in the US and across the globe, is one of the most prestigious learned societies in the world, and also one of America’s oldest learned societies, with the purpose of honoring exceptional...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | May 5, 2021 | Gist Corner
Yaa Gyasi has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Literature 2021 for her second novel, Transcendent Kingdom.The Women’s Prize for Fiction, started in 1996, is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Apr 26, 2021 | Gist Corner
The winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Awards have been announced. The award is presented to Arab writers, intellectuals, and publishers as well as young talent whose “writings and translations of humanities have scholarly and objectively enriched...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Apr 26, 2021 | Gist Corner
The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing has announced that it received 153 submissions from 22 African countries via their new online submissions platform this year, including an entry from Burkina Faso, for the first time. Here are...
by Chibuike Ogbonnaya | Apr 26, 2021 | Gist Corner
Bernardine Evaristo’s Ragazza, Donna, Altro (Girl, Woman, Other) translated by Martina Testa (Sur), and Maaza Mengiste’s Il Re Ombra (The Shadow King) translated by Anna Nadotti (Einaudi) are on the 2021 longlist for the Premio Gregor von Rezzori Prize. The prize is...
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