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2018 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award shortlist announced, including poetry in isiZulu and Tshivenda
The shortlist for the 2018 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award has been announced!
Redi Tlhabi, Thandeka Gqubule, Steve Biko, Jacques Pauw and Marnus Broodryk up for Nielsen Booksellers Choice Award
The shortlist for the Nielsen Booksellers Choice Award – a prize for South African booksellers’ favourite book – has been announced.
Calls increase for the release of jailed Bangladeshi writer and photographer Shahidul Alam
Organisations and individuals around the world have condemned the arrest of internationally renowned writer, photographer and activist Shahidul Alam. Writer Antjie Krog, …
Publishing legend Koos Human, the godfather of the ‘Sestigers’, dies aged 87
From NB Publishers: Koos Human, a giant of Afrikaans book publishing, died at his Cape Town home on Friday, 10 August 2018. …
Africa! Submissions are open for the Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology
Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology: An award and anthology on the topics of gender, human rights and sexuality, for writers and photographers across Africa.
The programme for the 2018 Open Book Festival has been revealed!
The full programme has been announced for the eighth Open Book Festival!
2018 Man Booker Prize longlist announced
The 2018 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced, including a graphic novel for the first time.
Michael Ondaatje wins the Golden Man Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje has won the Golden Man Booker Prize, a one-off award for the best work of fiction from the last five decades.
Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology closing date extended to 31 August 2018
The Jacana Literary Foundation has extended the deadline for the Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology, which honours African writing and photography that ‘provokes thought on the topics of gender, social justice and sexuality’.
RIP David Goldblatt, 1930–2018
David Goldblatt was a brilliant photographer, social commentator, and altogether decent human being, and he will be greatly missed.
Harry Kalmer and Bongani Ngqulunga win 2018 Sunday Times Literary Awards
The winners of the 2018 Sunday Times Literary Awards were announced on Saturday.
Nigerian writer Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor wins 2017 Short Story Day Africa Prize
The winners of the Short Story Day Africa Prize have been announced!
Call for entries: City Press Tafelberg Nonfiction Award
The closing date has been moved from 30 June 2018 to 31 July 2018.
Shortlists for 2018 Media24 Books Literary Awards announced
Redi Tlhabi, Jacques Pauw, Qarnita Loxton, Marlene van Niekerk and Michiel Heyns are among the authors shortlisted for this year’s Media24 Books Literary Awards.
Open Book Festival announces first group of authors confirmed for Cape Town
The first group of authors has been announced for the eighth Open Book Festival! This year’s Open Book will take place from …
Read an extract from Kamila Shamsie’s novel Home Fire, winner of the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Kamila Shamsie’s brilliant novel Home Fire has won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Read an extract from this fantastic novel.
Announcing the longlisted poems for the 2018 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award and Anthology
The Jacana Literary Foundation (JLF) is delighted to announce that the work of 63 poets has been selected for publication in the 8th annual Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology.
Shortlist for the Golden Man Booker Prize announced: honouring the best work of fiction over five decades
The shortlist for the Golden Man Booker Prize, the ‘five best Booker Prize winners of all time’, has been announced at the Hay Festival.
Pwaangulongii Dauod wins Gerald Kraak Award for his essay ‘Africa’s future has no space for stupid black men’
Pwaangulongii Dauod has won the R25 000 Gerald Kraak Award, which honours African writing and photography that ‘provokes thought on the topics of gender, social justice and sexuality’.
2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist announced
African shortlistees this year hail from Uganda (Harriet Anena), South Africa (Fred Khumalo and Michelle Sacks), Ghana (Cheryl Ntumy) and Nigeria (Efua Traoré and Obi Umeozor).