The Guardian has unveiled its Best Books of 2017. Unlike The New York Times Book Review‘s 100 Notable Books of 2017 which is selected by the newspaper’s editors, The Guardian‘s list is chosen by invited authors and is essentially those authors’ favourite books of the year. This year, seven books by Africans are selected: Uganda’s Nick […]
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Photos | Nommo Awards 2017: How Africa’s First Ever Speculative Fiction Awards Ceremony Happened
The announcement of the winners of the inaugural Nommo Awards took place at the ongoing 2017 Ake Arts and Book Festival in Abeokuta, Nigeria. The Nommo Awards, founded in 2016 by the African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS), recognise the finest fantasy or science fiction works by Africans. The ASFS is a body of African writers, […]
Lesley Arimah Beats Booker Finalist Mohsin Hamid and Hari Kunzru to $50,000 Kirkus Prize for Fiction
Lesley Nneka Arimah has been awarded the $50,000 Kirkus Prize for Fiction for her short story collection What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, beating Mohsin Hamid’s Booker-shortlisted novel Exit West and English PEN Deputy President Hari Kunzru’s White Fears. Given in the fiction, nonfiction and children’s literature categories, the Kirkus Prizes consider […]
Goodreads Awards 2017: Vote for Adichie, Nnedi Okorafor, Lesley Arimah and Ayobami Adebayo
Goodreads has announced nominations for its 2017 awards, and four authors having massively successful years—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nnedi Okorafor, Lesley Nneka Arimah and Ayobami Adebayo—are nominated. The awards are voted for by readers. Nnedi Okorafor, who has exploded onto a new level of fame this year, is nominated in the Science Fiction Category for Home, […]
Lesley Nneka Arimah Picked for the US National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” List
Lesley Nneka Arimah has been picked for the US National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” list of 2017, on the strength of her debut short story collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky. She joins Dinaw Mengestu, in 2007, NoViolet Bulawayo, in 2013, and Yaa Gyasi, in 2016, among African writers […]
An Almost Year for the Caine Prize: 6 Records That Were Not Broken | By Nkiacha Atemnkeng
In 2017, several Caine Prize records almost got broken. But one did get broken. Sixty-five-year-old Sudanese Bushra al-Fadil is the oldest fictioneer to get nominated for the Caine prize. But after him, the list of almost-records begins. 1. Second Arabic-to-English Translation Bushra’s “The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away” is a translation from […]
Lesley Nneka Arimah Wins a 2017 O. Henry Prize
Lesley Nneka Arimah’s short story “Glory” has won an O. Henry Prize. The O. Henry Prize is awarded to twenty of the year’s best stories. The chosen stories will be collected in an anthology edited by Laura Furman which will be published by Anchor in September. Arimah’s “Glory” is published in Harper’s. Here are all the […]
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