Days after Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga was longlisted for the Booker Prize, she was arrested while protesting. The arrest took place in the early hours of Friday, 31 July by the Zimbabwean Republic Police (ZRP). Earlier today, Zimbabwean news outlet TheFeedZW shared a video of her leaving jail and subsequently fielding questions from reporters. She […]
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Tsitsi Dangarembga and Maaza Mengiste on 2020 Booker Prize Longlist
Ethiopian author Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King and Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangaremgba’s This Mournable Body are on the longlist of the 2020 Booker Prize. This is the first nomination for either authors. Joining them on the female-dominated longlist of thirteen are two-time winner Hillary Mantel for The Mirror and the Light, the final installment in […]
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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