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November 11, 2021

He testified before the Zondo Commission. “I implicated 39 parties in my testimony so threats could come from many places,” he said. “I’ve faced alienation by corporate South Africa, from the university where I taught ethics. . . and I’ve been let down by many friends.”

November 9, 2021

The Mozambican author, now retired, takes the €100,000 Lusophone literary honour for her body of work.

November 9, 2021

The Senegalese novelist becomes the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to get France’s most prestigious literary prize—exactly 100 years after its first Black winner.

November 6, 2021

A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times is the Ethiopian Caine Prize winner’s debut book of fiction.

November 6, 2021

The academic won the $100,000 for her debut novel The Son of the House. Peter Uche Umezurike won the N1,000,000 literary criticism prize.

November 3, 2021

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.”

November 3, 2021

Join the Nigerian writers as they discuss Akpan’s new novel New York, My Village.

October 29, 2021

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

October 28, 2021

The Booker Prize winner performs his letter in a video with his family, ahead of the United Nations Climate Conference (COP26). “It’s time,” he said, “to show that we human beings can be a great force for good on this planet.”

October 28, 2021

The conversation, moderated by fellow Nigerian poet Omotara James, is organized by the City Artists Corps Grant and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

October 27, 2021

The Zimbabwean author and filmmaker is the first Black woman to receive the €25,000 award from the German Book Trade Association.

October 11, 2021

The Ugandan novelist, jailed and tortured last year, was chosen, as is tradition, by the PEN Pinter prize winner, who this year is Tsitsi Dangarembga.

October 7, 2021

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.”

September 17, 2021

The screenplay is by the filmmaker and the novelist. Singer Niyola makes her film debut as the lead.

September 14, 2021

The Belgian awards, which seek to improve cultural diversity in the country, honoured the Eritrean Ethiopian novelist and curator for founding a literary festival and a writing academy for refugees.

September 8, 2021

The opening event at the Theater der Welt Festival in Germany saw the cultural icon and the European leader share experiences on race, fashion, and difference.

September 4, 2021

The two actors of Nigerian descent will narrate HarperCollins’ and The Borough Press’ forthcoming collection of essays by Nigerian writers.

August 5, 2021

It will enhance the next phase of the Portal, “expanding research and scholarship relating to African poetry and joining with other institutions to create a digital collections hub that will give access to materials held by institutions worldwide.”

July 27, 2021

Three Africans are in the running this year: Damon Galgut for The Promise, Nadifa Mohamed for The Fortune Men, and Karen Jennings for An Island.

November 11, 2021

He testified before the Zondo Commission. “I implicated 39 parties in my testimony so threats could come from many places,” he said. “I’ve faced alienation by corporate South Africa, from the university where I taught ethics. . . and I’ve been let down by many friends.”

November 9, 2021

The Mozambican author, now retired, takes the €100,000 Lusophone literary honour for her body of work.

November 9, 2021

The Senegalese novelist becomes the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to get France’s most prestigious literary prize—exactly 100 years after its first Black winner.

November 6, 2021

A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times is the Ethiopian Caine Prize winner’s debut book of fiction.

November 6, 2021

The academic won the $100,000 for her debut novel The Son of the House. Peter Uche Umezurike won the N1,000,000 literary criticism prize.

November 3, 2021

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.”

November 3, 2021

Join the Nigerian writers as they discuss Akpan’s new novel New York, My Village.

October 29, 2021

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

October 28, 2021

The Booker Prize winner performs his letter in a video with his family, ahead of the United Nations Climate Conference (COP26). “It’s time,” he said, “to show that we human beings can be a great force for good on this planet.”

October 28, 2021

The conversation, moderated by fellow Nigerian poet Omotara James, is organized by the City Artists Corps Grant and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

October 27, 2021

The Zimbabwean author and filmmaker is the first Black woman to receive the €25,000 award from the German Book Trade Association.

October 11, 2021

The Ugandan novelist, jailed and tortured last year, was chosen, as is tradition, by the PEN Pinter prize winner, who this year is Tsitsi Dangarembga.

October 7, 2021

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.”

September 17, 2021

The screenplay is by the filmmaker and the novelist. Singer Niyola makes her film debut as the lead.

September 14, 2021

The Belgian awards, which seek to improve cultural diversity in the country, honoured the Eritrean Ethiopian novelist and curator for founding a literary festival and a writing academy for refugees.

September 8, 2021

The opening event at the Theater der Welt Festival in Germany saw the cultural icon and the European leader share experiences on race, fashion, and difference.

September 4, 2021

The two actors of Nigerian descent will narrate HarperCollins’ and The Borough Press’ forthcoming collection of essays by Nigerian writers.

August 5, 2021

It will enhance the next phase of the Portal, “expanding research and scholarship relating to African poetry and joining with other institutions to create a digital collections hub that will give access to materials held by institutions worldwide.”

July 27, 2021

Three Africans are in the running this year: Damon Galgut for The Promise, Nadifa Mohamed for The Fortune Men, and Karen Jennings for An Island.

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