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African Literary Digest: 101 Notable Pieces of 2018

It was inevitable: compiling a list as monstrous as this would consume time, cause a delay. But here we are. 2018 came with its own firsts and highs. A new major publishing house came on board: The Indigo Press, founded by the distinguished Zimbabwean editor and critic Ellah Allfrey. A new major magazine: Kabaka, dedicated to publishing queer-centered […]

Boubacar Baris Diop and Abdellatif Laabi Are Finalists for the 2017 Best Translated Book Awards

Senegalese author Boubacar Baris Diop’s novel Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks and Moroccan author Abdellatif Laabi’s poetry collection In Praise of Defeat are now finalists for the 2017 Best Translated Book Awards. The fifteen finalists—ten for prose and five for poetry—and their translators represent thirteen countries and nine languages. In March, we had announced their longlisting alongside Egyptian author Basma Abdel Aziz’s novel The […]

Boubacar Boris Diop, Basma Abdel Aziz and Abdellatif Laabi Longlisted for the 2017 Best Translated Book Prize

Thirty-five books have been named on the fiction and poetry longlists of the 2017 Best Translated Book Prize. On the 25-strong fiction list are Senegalese author Boubacar Baris Diop’s novel Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks and Egyptian author Basma Abdel Aziz’s novel The Queue, and on the 10-strong poetry list is Moroccan author Abdellatif Laabi’s collection In Praise of […]