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Features, Lit Scene, News September 3, 2019

Bernardine Evaristo & Chigozie Obioma Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction, Alongside Margaret Atwood & Salman Rushdie

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 […]

25 Authors, 41 Novels: An African History of the Booker Prize for Fiction

The Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded annually to the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. Formerly known as the Booker-McConnell Prize (1961-2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002-2019), it is widely regarded as the pre-eminent book prize in the English-speaking world. From inception, it was open […]

Bernardine Evaristo, Chigozie Obioma, & Oyinkan Braithwaite Make 13-Strong Longlist for the 2019 Booker Prize

The 2019 Booker Prize longlist was announced hours ago, and on it are Bernardine Evaristo for her eighth book Girl, Woman, Other, Chigozie Obioma for his second novel An Orchestra of Minorities, and Oyinkan Braithwaite for her Women’s Prize-shortlisted debut My Sister, the Serial Killer, which, at 31, makes her the youngest candidate for the […]

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 […]