Check Out The African Writers on Booker Prize's Longlist
Three African writers have been featured on the longlist for the 2021 Booker Prize. South Africa's Damon Galgut's book, The Promise is set on a farm outside the city of Pretoria. It tells of a white South African family that has failed to keep a promise to the black woman who has worked for them her whole life. This is the third time he is appearing on the prize's longlist. Fellow South African author Karen Jennings is also on the list with her novel, An Island. The book tells the story of friendship after an old lighthouse keeper finds an unnconscious refugee on the beach. British-Somali author Nadifa Mohamed's The Fortune Men, tells the story of a Somali seaman who was wrongfully executed for murder in Wales in 1952.
The Booker Prize for Fiction is open to works by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK or Ireland. Last year, two African authors - Ethiopian author Maaza Mengiste and Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga - made the shortlist but neither of them won.
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Africa:
Three Africans on 2021 Booker Prize Longlist - Check It Out!
The Booker Prizes, 27 July 2021
The longlist for the 2021 Booker Prize is announced today, Tuesday 27 July 2021. Read more »
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Ethiopia:
New Novel Documents Female Heroines in War Against Italians
Nation, 26 June 2021
A new novel by the Ethiopian author Maaza Mengiste, titled The Shadow King, captures the valuable contribution of the gallant heroines who were part of the national army that… Read more »
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Morocco:
2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction - Moroccan Author in the Shortlist
MAP, 30 March 2021
"File 42" by Moroccan author Abdelmajid Sebbata has been announced, Monday, among the shortlisted works for the 14th International Prize for Arabic Fiction (Booker 2021). Read more »
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Kenya:
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, 12 Others for International Booker Prize
Vanguard, 5 April 2021
Africa's literary colossus, Professor Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, made history on Tuesday, when he was longlisted among twelve other authors for the 2021 International Booker Prize, as both… Read more »
InFocus
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French-Senegalese writer, David Diop, has been awarded this year's prestigious International Booker Prize for his debut novel At Night All Blood Is Black. The book ... Read more »
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Three days after Tsitsi Dangarembga was nominated for the Booker Prize longlist on July 28 with her latest novel, This Mournable Body, she was arrested while peacefully protesting ... Read more »
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