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Terry Kurgan and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu win the 2019 Sunday Times Literary Awards
The winners of the 2019 Sunday Times Literary Awards have been announced!
Sign up for Read This! – a new voice note show, hosted by The JRB and Volume
The Johannesburg Review of Books and Volume have launched a new books show called Read This!, where you can discover what’s hot in the world of literature.
2019 Booker Prize longlist announced – including two African authors
The 2019 Booker Prize longlist has been announced—described by the judges as ‘bold’, ‘lyrical’, ‘very diverse’ and ‘quite wild’.
British-born Nigerian writer Tade Thompson has won the 2019 Arthur C Clarke Award for his novel Rosewater
Tade Thompson’s novel Rosewater has won the Arthur C Clarke Award, the UK’s most prestigious prize for science fiction.
Nigerian author Lesley Nneka Arimah has won the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing
Nigerian author Lesley Nneka Arimah has won the twentieth edition of the Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story ‘Skinned’.
2019 Caine Prize for African Writing shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Caine Prize for African Writing has been announced, featuring writers from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria.
Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist revealed
The shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, awarded annually to the ‘best, eligible full-length novel in English’ by a woman, has been announced.
2019 Man Booker International Prize shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize, celebrating the ‘finest works of translated fiction from around the world’, has been announced.
The winners of the South African Literary Awards have been announced
The winners of the 2017 South African Literary Awards (SALAs) have been announced.
Five African authors up for €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award
The Johannesburg Review of Books reports that five African authors have made the longlist for the International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.
2017 Man Booker Prize shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction has been announced.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie pays touching tribute to Binyavanga Wainaina: ‘A great and rare and genuine talent’
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie paid homage to Binyavanga Wainaina yesterday evening, in a touching message read out at an event at Wits University in Johannesburg.