The Man Booker International Prize 2015 winner was announced at an award ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London last night. The name of the award winner is Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. The Man Booker Prize International 2015 is given once every two years to a living author for a body of work […]
The Neustadt International Prize for Literature are international bimonthly awards sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and World Literature Today,. It is a first literary award of its scope to originate in the United States and is one of the very few international prizes for which poets, novelists, and playwrights are equally eligible. It consists […]
Weep Not Child, the debut novel of celebrated Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o published in 1964, was the first book published by a Kenyan African. The author, who was known as James Ngugi before he opted to be a true African writer and adopted the name Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, then went onto first pain and […]
The Caine Prize workshop gives aspiring writers two weeks to create and finish a story under the guidance of experiences writers and occurs in a different African country every year. This year the workshop was in Elmina, Ghana in April and was facilitated by first Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela and Zukiswa Wanner. Elmina is […]
The Sunday Times Literary Awards are one of richest prizes for writers on the continent with winners in the two categories going home with R100 000. The awards are in two categories; the fiction prize is called the Barry Ronge Award and the non fiction category is called the Alan Paton Award. The award is […]
A few Sundays ago the winner of the Etisalat Prize for African Literature Songeziwe Mahlangu author of Penumbra was in town to show his stuff to the Nairobi crowd. The organisers of the event, Kwani Trust, hosted a great shindig taking the opportunity to bring in a host of other folks like Henry Ole Kulet […]
Its look like this year’s Writivism Festival will be the best yet. That list of guests you will meet at this festival is looking quite healthy. Anyone who follows Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire on social media will follow his happy announcements of the latest Prince Clause Fund artist whose travel has been funded to Kampala. For […]
A few days ago I spoke about the call out made for the new Short Story Day anthology for 2015 that will focus on Water. More details have emerged about this project which is sponsored by Worldreader, Bookslive.co.za and AllAboutWriting.com The organisers of the event have now announced the judges for those who submit their work […]
In October last year I was blogged about Cameroon writer Imbolo Mbue who had signed a seven figure dollar deal for her new book The Longings of Jende Jonga. Its not every day that you hear that someone gets a deal with a big publisher or literary agent that leads to one getting much recognition […]
The Storymoja Festival is officially the biggest literary festival in Kenya and one of the fastest growing on the continent. The festival is making its first regional stopover in Nakuru at the Kenya National Library Services on May 28 – 30, 2015. The Nakuru edition promises some very cool guest that residents of that famous […]
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