Bernardine Evaristo, for her eighth book Girl, Woman, Other, and Chigozie Obioma, for his second novel An Orchestra of Minorities, have been shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, worth £50,000. It is the Nigerian Obioma’s second consecutive shortlisting, following that for his debut novel The Fishermen in 2015, and the British-Nigerian Evaristo’s first shortlisting, on her first […]
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Nigeria and Morocco Represent Africa in Booker Prize Longlist
The longlist for the Booker Prize was announced last week, and we are so delighted that there are two Africans on the list of twelve. Morocco and Nigeria are representing the continent with Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account and Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen. The Moor’s Account is a historical novel following the adventures of a Moroccan explorer […]
The Booker Prize Shortlist For 2012 Is Out
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a highly prestigious literary award for the best novel of the year written by an author from a nation in the British commonwealth or from Ireland and Zimbabwe. 50,000 pounds is a lot of money so, of course, that’s a big part of the whole excitement surrounding the award. But […]
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