The Jomo Kenyatta Literature Prize will be awarding Kshs600,000 for the winner in 2015 if sources are to be believed. With the Burt Award 2014 and the Wahome Mutahi Prize 2014 done and dusted we look forward to next year and what the prize committees will be handing to deserving winners. In the New Year, […]
South African writer and PEN SA President Margie Orford has been elected to the international board of PEN International. She follows the South African Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer who was appointed Vice President of PEN International, a position she held until her death. Orford is well known as journo who has written for The Guardian, […]
Jalada’s Afrofuture anthology: Jalada Africa has announced that their newest anthology with the “Afrofuture” theme will be unleashed on an unsuspecting public on January 2015. They have given a sneak peak of the anthology with a non-fiction piece on visual artist Wangechi Mutu and her career by Binyanvanga Wainaina. The hottest new thing in the […]
Somali author Diriye Osman has become the first African to win the Polari First Book Prize for his collection of short stories entitled Fairytales for Lost Children. So who is this Osman? He is a Somali-British short story writer, essayist, critic and visual artist who insists that we write our own stories. His writing has […]
Dr Ali Mazrui is dead. The good doctor who had been unwell died in the US earlier today and shall be flow back home to be buried in his beloved continent. Daktari who was born in Mombasa, Kenya was an academic, professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations. He was […]
So much happening in the new week in the literature world on this rock. Today however I will focus on two gigs happening for all you literature buffs in Kisumu. On Wednesday 15th October, Oduor Jagero and Zukiswa Wanner will be launching their two books True Citizen and London Cape Town Joburg at the Little […]
French author Patrick Mondiano is the author of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature for 2014. We specialise in African literature here at JamesMurua.com and we were pining for our Ngugi Wa Thiong’o who had been said to be in the running this year. Again. It was not to be. Again. So who is this […]
Sam Ukala with hi book IREDI WAR is the winner of the 2014 Nigeria Literature Prize. After many weeks of build up of the richest prize in African literature, US$100,000 which isn’t too shabby, we got a winner. Ukala beat other shortlistees Friday John Abba (Alekwu Night Dance) and Jude Idada (Oduduwa, King of the […]
Cameroon writer Imbolo Mbue has signed a seven figure dollar deal for her new book The Longings of Jende Jonga with publisher Random House taking its North American rights at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The book agent who signed the deal on behalf of the author is Susan Golomb. The Frankfurt Book Fair is one […]
Elizabeth Kabui is the winner of the grand prize in the Burt Awards for African Literature for 2014 for her book Wa Nyakeeru My Father published by Longhorn Publishers. For those who might not be in the know the Burt Award, funded by Canadian philanthropist William Burt is an annual award which goes to fiction […]
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