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Commonwealth Writers’ Prize --Africa

Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2010 Regional Prizes were just announced.
The Africa prize is dominated by South Africa and Nigeria AGAIN.

Come on East Africans, lets go to work and do better this year.

Africa Winners

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubeni from Nigeria won Best First Book for I Do Not Come to You by Chance
Marie Heese from South Africa won Best Book for The Double Crown.

The shortlisted writers for Africa's Best Book were:
Trespass by Dawn Garisch (South Africa)
The Double Crown by Marié Heese (South Africa)
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
Eyo by Abidemi Sanusi (Nigeria)
Tsamma Season by Rosemund Handler (South Africa)
Refuge by Andrew Brown (South Africa)
Kings of the Water by Mark Behr (South Africa)

The shortlisted writers for Africa's Best First Book are:
I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (Nigeria)
The Shape of Him by Gill Schierhout (South Africa)
The Shadow of a Smile by Kachi Ozumba (Nigeria)
Come Sunday by Isla Morley (South Africa)
Sleepers Wake by Alistair Morgan (South Africa)
Jelly Dog Days by Erica Emdon (South Africa)
Harmattan Rain by Aysha Harunna Attah (Ghana)

more details available here
 

Sunday Nation Commentary

Fimbo books mentioned in this Daily Nation Commentary.
I don't agree with some of it.

The link
 

The Lost Man Booker Prize

The shortlist for The Lost Man Booker Prize - a one-off prize to honour books published in 1970 that were not eligible for consideration for the Booker Prize:

The Birds on the Trees by Nina Bawden (Virago)
Troubles by J G Farrell (Phoenix)
The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard (Virago)
Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault (Arrow)
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark (Penguin)
The Vivisector by Patrick White (Vintage)

Read more
here

 

Uwem Akpan: Say You're One of Them

For lovers of "African" lit:

This may be a little late but Uwem Akpan is the recipient of a 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins Award for Say You're One of Them (Little, Brown and Company, 2008).

Read an excerpt here
 
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