The winners of the 2019 South African Literary Awards (SALA) were announced on Thursday, November 7, at a ceremony held in Johannesburg. Winners were announced for thirteen categories, ten of which were competitive. SALA was founded in 2005 by the wRite Associates – an events and project management company that focuses on the arts, culture, […]
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Niq Mhlongo on Why He’s Skeptical of (South African) Literary Prizes
The 2019 Media24 Books Literary Prizes were announced in June, giving out a total of R200,000 in six categories. The prizes honour the best work released in the previous year by Media24 book publishers, which include Jonathan Ball Publishers and NB-Uitgewers/Publishers, the latter of which includes such imprints as Human & Rousseau, Tafelberg, Kwela Books, […]
Photos: Kenya’s TBC Book Club Celebrates It’s 2-year Anniversary
On Saturday 14th July 2018, TBC BOOK Club celebrated its 2-year anniversary with a panel of celebrated authors; Yvonne Owour (Kenya), Hawa Jande Golakai (Liberia), Zukiswa Wanner (South Africa) and Niq Mhlongo (South Africa). The book club is an initiative of Text Book Centre, the leading chain of bookstores in Kenya. It celebrated two years since […]
Writing in Migration | Photos from the Festival of African Writers in Berlin
Last month, the Nigerian-German novelist Olumide Popoola, author of When We Speak of Nothing, curated a star-studded festival of African writers in Berlin. The event, held from 26–28 April at Kino Babylon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 3010178, Berlin, was themed “Writing in Migration” and was presented by the literary agency InterKontinental. It was sponsored by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and Berlin’s Senate Department for […]
“A Mission to Reshape Our History” | Read Niq Mhlongo’s Inspirational BRICS 2017 Literary Forum Keynote Speech
A keynote speech delivered by the South African novelist Niq Mhlongo—author of Dog Eat Dog (2004), After Tears (2007), Way Back Home (2013), and Affluenza (2016)—at the BRICS 2017 Literary Forum in Zhuhai, China on 15 December 2017. Cleansing the Past and Restoring the Truthful Reality Thirteen years ago in 2004, my first novel Dog Eat Dog was published by Kwela. […]
Olumide Popoola to Curate Star-Studded 2018 Berlin Festival of African Writers
Olumide Popoola, Nigerian-German author of When We Speak of Nothing, will be curating a star-studded 2018 festival of African writers in Berlin. The event, themed “Writing in Migration,” is presented by the literary agency InterKontinental, and will be attended by writers from Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, DR Congo, Zimbabwe, and Ghana. For the first […]
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