Literary Crossroads is a new series of talks hosted at the Goethe in three African cities where writers meet colleagues from all over the world and from the African diaspora. At these events in Nairobi, Johannesburg and Lagos they discuss trends, topics and themes prevalent in their literatures today. The first of the events in 2016 […]
Over a year ago, I started writing a column in the literary pages of the Saturday Nation. In that time, the bulk of the emails I have received from prospective Kenyan writers largely have a request and a complaint. The request is to find out whether I will be doing any writing workshops and if […]
It was a big night for poet and novelist Fiston Mwanza Mujila on Saturday, 19th March 2016 as he was announced the winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature for his first novel, Tram 83. Originally written in French, Tram 83 was translated into English by Roland Glasser and published by Deep Vellum. 35-year-old Mujila is the first Francophone […]
The Association of Nigerian Authors has made a call out for its 2016 literary prize. The association which had Chinua Achebe as founding chairman is looking for entries in the following categories. The prize money is put alongside. ANA Prize for Poetry (published & unpublished) – N 100,000 2. ANA Prize for Prose Fiction (published […]
The Morocco Book Awards were announced yesterday with winners in six categories going home with the plaudits. The Morocco Book Award gives awards in six categories, including literature, translation, and poetry. Winners were selected from among 175 submissions, 36 of which were in the literature category, 37 in poetry, and 35 in translation The biggest winner on […]
Zimbabwe’s Petina Gappah has made it onto the shortlist of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2016 that was announced yesterday. She is listed for her story The News of Her Death that ran in the Transatlantic. The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award is, at £30,000 to the winner, the world’s richest prize […]
A global contest for modern African folk Tales called Re-imagined! was launched at the World Storytelling Day celebrations in Nairobi on Saturday. The contest is curated by Maimouna Jallow. Re-imagined! is a global online storytelling contest inviting African writers, poets, playwrights and journalists to re-invent and update the African folktale for a new millennium. The challenge is […]
World Storytelling Day is an annual celebration of the art of oral storytelling celebrated all over the world on or near March 20th. On this day, as many people as possible tell and listen to stories in as many languages and at as many places as possible, during the same day and night. In Nairobi, the events […]
World Storytelling Day 2016 started slowly at the Kwani Grounds in Westlands, Nairobi but eventually blew up to being one of the biggest events of the literary calendar for 2016 so far. The theme of the event was re-imagined. There was much to enjoy at the venue with storytelling being at the centre of it all […]
Fiston Mwanza Mujila is the winner of the Etisalat Prize for Literature 2015 and the £15,000 prize money for his debut novel Tram 83. The announcement was made earlier today at the Intercontinental Hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos. Tram 83 is story about two friends, one a budding writer home from abroad, the other an ambitious […]
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