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October 7, 2021

Tanzanian Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah Wins Nobel Prize in Literature, Becomes Second Black African Laureate

The prolific 73-year-old, whose latest is the novel Afterlives, has been awarded “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”
Otosirieze
Abdulrazak Gurnah by Mark Pringle.

January 14, 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives Is a Story of War & Love in Colonized Tanzania

It is the 10th novel by the Tanzanian author, who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives by Bloomsbury Books.

October 3, 2023

“You Have to Celebrate Writers While They’re Alive”: Labone Dialogues Is the Year’s Big Event in African Literature

Headlined by a quartet of feted veteran voices in Wole Soyinka, Aminatta Forna, Jennifer Makumbi, and Chris Abani, NYU Accra’s 30-author symposium is a convergence of inspiration. “We have to tell our own story,” said convener and school director Chike Frankie Edozien.
Otosirieze
Jennifer Makumbi

February 11, 2023

The Anticipated Books of 2023

From Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ben Okri, and Leila Aboulela, to Chigozie Obioma, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, and Ayobami Adebayo, here are the over 100 books expected to lead the literary conversation this year.
Open Country Mag
The Anticipated Books of 2023

December 13, 2022

The Gentle Defiance of Chinelo Okparanta

With Happiness, Like Water and Under the Udala Trees, she helped herald LGBTQ visibility in Nigerian literature. With Harry Sylvester Bird, she still isn’t looking to satisfy society. “I think, sometimes, it takes time for people to digest what literature is really doing,” the literary icon says.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Chinelo Okparanta by Onyinye Ihezukwu.

July 25, 2022

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 6

The issue will be guest-edited by Tlotlo Tsamaase, Frazier Michael, and Lucky Grace. It opens for submissions on August 1.
Lolwe
Lolwe Issue 3. Photo credit: "young and hurt" by Teddy Tavan.

April 18, 2022

Abdulrazak Gurnah & Warsan Shire Set for PEN World Voices Festival 2022

Other African writers participating include Laila Lalami, Ousman Umar, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Leila Slimani.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Abdulrazak Gurnah by Mark Pringle.

April 13, 2022

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki’s Curation of African Speculative Fiction

The writer and editor, working from Nigeria, has seen his groundbreaking work with the anthology Dominion earn major acclaim in the US and the UK, including becoming the first Africa-born Black writer to earn a Hugo Award nomination.
Kanyinsola Olorunnisola
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.

March 31, 2022

22 African Writers, Groundbreaking and Female, Born before the Last 60 Years and Now Gone

For Women’s History Month: global, continental, and national literary icons from the 20th century.
Open Country Mag
20 African Writers, Groundbreaking and Female, Born in the Last 45 Years. Curated by Open Country Mag for Women's History Month, March 2022.

February 14, 2022

28 Writers Go Deep into Love, in Art and Life

For Valentine’s Day, we asked 28 writers—deep readers and consumers of art—to share the literary, cinematic, musical, and life stories that affect them. They opened up beautifully.
Open Country Mag
A still from the film Rafiki, directed by Wanuri Kahiu and based on Monica Arac de Nyeko's short story Jambula Tree

February 12, 2022

The Methods of Damon Galgut

How the South African naturalist, a prodigy, innovated major work on masculinity, race, memory, and time—and then, at the tip of his 40-year career, came the Booker Prize.
Otosirieze
Damon Galgut by Michaela Verity

February 10, 2022

Damon Galgut Is on the February 2022 Cover of Open Country Mag

In his 40th year as a writer, last year’s Booker Prize winner talks to Open Country Mag about his artistic process, and his novel The Promise.
Otosirieze
Open Country Mag Reissues Cover of Damon Galgut

January 4, 2022

Inside Chinese Publishers’ Growing Interest in African Literature

Since the 1980s, 106 African authors and 269 titles have been translated into the Chinese. Here, an insider provides an overview of the last two years, and a preview of 2022.
Bruce Humes
The Chinese edition of Congolese author Alain Mabanckou's Mémoires de porc-épic (Memoirs of a Porcupine), released in 2020. Credit: Sohu.com.

November 23, 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 10 Novels Acquired by Chinese Publisher

Shanghai Translation Publishing House secured the Chinese rights to the Nobel laureate’s fiction oeuvre. Five novels will be released in 2022.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Abdulrazak Gurnah's books. Credit: LA Times.

November 3, 2021

Damon Galgut Takes Booker Prize for The Promise

The South African stylist, the fifth African to win, had previously been shortlisted twice. The judges called his winning ninth novel “a strong, unambiguous commentary on the history of South Africa and of humanity itself.”
Otosirieze
Author Damon Galgut at the 2021 Booker Prize Awards Ceremony in London, Wednesday Nov. 3, 2021. South African writer Damon Galgut wins the Booker Prize for fiction for “The Promise”. (David Parry/PA via AP)

October 29, 2021

Three Abdulrazak Gurnah Titles Acquired in the U.S. by Riverhead

Since winning the Nobel Prize, the Tanzanian’s novels, most of which went out of print, are now in heavy demand.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives by Bloomsbury Books.

October 9, 2021

Your Guide to Nobel Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 10 Novels

He is the first Black writer in 28 years, the second Black African, and the first East African laureate in literature. Here are the Tanzanian’s 10 novels.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Abdulrazak Gurnah's books. Credit: LA Times.

October 8, 2021

Reading Abdulrazak Gurnah: 22 Essays on the 2021 Nobel Prize Winner’s Works

In awarding the Tanzanian novelist, short story writer, critic, and former academic, the Swedish Academy recommends these.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Abdulrazak Gurnah by Frank Augstein/AP.

August 9, 2021

Nadia Owusu’s Memoir, Aftershocks, Bares Her Story of Loss, Race, and Identity

The Ghanaian and Armenian American writer’s debut has been praised for its lyricism.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Nadia Owusu - Aftershocks

July 26, 2021

Doek! Magazine Releases Issue 6

The Namibian magazine’s latest issue, Tomorrow/Together, features, among others, contributors from Jamaica, Lesotho, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, and Tanzania for the very first time.
Doek! Magazine
Doek! Issue 6 cover.

October 7, 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah by Mark Pringle.

Tanzanian Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah Wins Nobel Prize in Literature, Becomes Second Black African Laureate

The prolific 73-year-old, whose latest is the novel Afterlives, has been awarded “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”
Otosirieze

January 14, 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives by Bloomsbury Books.

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives Is a Story of War & Love in Colonized Tanzania

It is the 10th novel by the Tanzanian author, who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996.
Uzoma Ihejirika

October 3, 2023

Jennifer Makumbi

“You Have to Celebrate Writers While They’re Alive”: Labone Dialogues Is the Year’s Big Event in African Literature

Headlined by a quartet of feted veteran voices in Wole Soyinka, Aminatta Forna, Jennifer Makumbi, and Chris Abani, NYU Accra’s 30-author symposium is a convergence of inspiration. “We have to tell our own story,” said convener and school director Chike Frankie Edozien.
Otosirieze

February 11, 2023

The Anticipated Books of 2023

The Anticipated Books of 2023

From Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ben Okri, and Leila Aboulela, to Chigozie Obioma, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, and Ayobami Adebayo, here are the over 100 books expected to lead the literary conversation this year.
Open Country Mag

December 13, 2022

Chinelo Okparanta by Onyinye Ihezukwu.

The Gentle Defiance of Chinelo Okparanta

With Happiness, Like Water and Under the Udala Trees, she helped herald LGBTQ visibility in Nigerian literature. With Harry Sylvester Bird, she still isn’t looking to satisfy society. “I think, sometimes, it takes time for people to digest what literature is really doing,” the literary icon says.
Paula Willie-Okafor

July 25, 2022

Lolwe Issue 3. Photo credit: "young and hurt" by Teddy Tavan.

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 6

The issue will be guest-edited by Tlotlo Tsamaase, Frazier Michael, and Lucky Grace. It opens for submissions on August 1.
Lolwe

April 18, 2022

Abdulrazak Gurnah by Mark Pringle.

Abdulrazak Gurnah & Warsan Shire Set for PEN World Voices Festival 2022

Other African writers participating include Laila Lalami, Ousman Umar, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Leila Slimani.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

April 13, 2022

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki’s Curation of African Speculative Fiction

The writer and editor, working from Nigeria, has seen his groundbreaking work with the anthology Dominion earn major acclaim in the US and the UK, including becoming the first Africa-born Black writer to earn a Hugo Award nomination.
Kanyinsola Olorunnisola

March 31, 2022

20 African Writers, Groundbreaking and Female, Born in the Last 45 Years. Curated by Open Country Mag for Women's History Month, March 2022.

22 African Writers, Groundbreaking and Female, Born before the Last 60 Years and Now Gone

For Women’s History Month: global, continental, and national literary icons from the 20th century.
Open Country Mag

February 14, 2022

A still from the film Rafiki, directed by Wanuri Kahiu and based on Monica Arac de Nyeko's short story Jambula Tree

28 Writers Go Deep into Love, in Art and Life

For Valentine’s Day, we asked 28 writers—deep readers and consumers of art—to share the literary, cinematic, musical, and life stories that affect them. They opened up beautifully.
Open Country Mag

February 12, 2022

Damon Galgut by Michaela Verity

The Methods of Damon Galgut

How the South African naturalist, a prodigy, innovated major work on masculinity, race, memory, and time—and then, at the tip of his 40-year career, came the Booker Prize.
Otosirieze

February 10, 2022

Open Country Mag Reissues Cover of Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut Is on the February 2022 Cover of Open Country Mag

In his 40th year as a writer, last year’s Booker Prize winner talks to Open Country Mag about his artistic process, and his novel The Promise.
Otosirieze

January 4, 2022

The Chinese edition of Congolese author Alain Mabanckou's Mémoires de porc-épic (Memoirs of a Porcupine), released in 2020. Credit: Sohu.com.

Inside Chinese Publishers’ Growing Interest in African Literature

Since the 1980s, 106 African authors and 269 titles have been translated into the Chinese. Here, an insider provides an overview of the last two years, and a preview of 2022.
Bruce Humes

November 23, 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah's books. Credit: LA Times.

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 10 Novels Acquired by Chinese Publisher

Shanghai Translation Publishing House secured the Chinese rights to the Nobel laureate’s fiction oeuvre. Five novels will be released in 2022.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

November 3, 2021

Author Damon Galgut at the 2021 Booker Prize Awards Ceremony in London, Wednesday Nov. 3, 2021. South African writer Damon Galgut wins the Booker Prize for fiction for “The Promise”. (David Parry/PA via AP)

Damon Galgut Takes Booker Prize for The Promise

The South African stylist, the fifth African to win, had previously been shortlisted twice. The judges called his winning ninth novel “a strong, unambiguous commentary on the history of South Africa and of humanity itself.”
Otosirieze

October 29, 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives by Bloomsbury Books.

Three Abdulrazak Gurnah Titles Acquired in the U.S. by Riverhead

Since winning the Nobel Prize, the Tanzanian’s novels, most of which went out of print, are now in heavy demand.
Uzoma Ihejirika

October 9, 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah's books. Credit: LA Times.

Your Guide to Nobel Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 10 Novels

He is the first Black writer in 28 years, the second Black African, and the first East African laureate in literature. Here are the Tanzanian’s 10 novels.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

October 8, 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah by Frank Augstein/AP.

Reading Abdulrazak Gurnah: 22 Essays on the 2021 Nobel Prize Winner’s Works

In awarding the Tanzanian novelist, short story writer, critic, and former academic, the Swedish Academy recommends these.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

August 9, 2021

Nadia Owusu - Aftershocks

Nadia Owusu’s Memoir, Aftershocks, Bares Her Story of Loss, Race, and Identity

The Ghanaian and Armenian American writer’s debut has been praised for its lyricism.
Paula Willie-Okafor

July 26, 2021

Doek! Issue 6 cover.

Doek! Magazine Releases Issue 6

The Namibian magazine’s latest issue, Tomorrow/Together, features, among others, contributors from Jamaica, Lesotho, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, and Tanzania for the very first time.
Doek! Magazine

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