Soma Nami Books is hosting Kenya’s biggest showcase and sale of African books at its first African Book Fair from August 1–5 at the McMillan Memorial Library on Banda Street, Nairobi. Offering over...
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The festival was founded by Ted Hughes, former Poet Laureate, in 1967, as a response to the global polarisation of east and west during the Cold War.
Writing in his...
The Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival 2022 is set to return to Brooklyn, USA from September 9-11, 2022. The festival theme is ‘We Outside!’
The Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival, which first...
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Fans of the iconic TV programme The Fast Show are in for a real treat as the original cast members, Simon Day, Charlie Higson, John Thomson, Paul Whitehouse, Mark Williams and Arabella...
The shortlists for the Sunday Times Literary Awards 2022, in partnership with Exclusive Books, were announced on Sunday, September 4, 2022.
The Sunday Times Literary Prize, organised by South African newspaper...
N.K. Jemisin’s graphic novel Far Sector won at the Hugo Awards 2022 at Chicon8, the World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago, USA on Sunday, September 4, 2022.
The Hugo and Astounding Awards, organized...
The Green We Left Behind is a literary project aimed at raising awareness for the issue of climate change. The project is curated by Arts Lounge Magazine, with support from the French embassy.
Nigerian novelist and filmmaker Biyi Bandele has passed on. He died on August 7th in Lagos. He was 54 years old. The cause of death is unknown.
The news of...
The Nigerian writer Roy Udeh-Ubaka wins the 2022 Gerald Kraak Award for his short story “Until it Doesn’t”, a dazzling, time-shifting, and soulful gem about the love affair of two young men as...