Ikeogu Oke, the 2017 winner of the NLNG Prize for Literature is dead. The 51-year-old poet reportedly died at the National Hospital Abuja after losing the battle to an undisclosed ailment. His poem, The Heresiad, was declared winner of the coveted prize from among 184 entries received from across the country for which he was […]
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For the first time in almost 70 years there will be no Nobel Literature Prize this year, after the Swedish Academy that selects the laureate failed to contain a deep crisis stemming from the anti-sexual harassment #MeToo campaign. “We find it necessary to commit time to recovering public confidence in the Academy before the next […]
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British writer Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. The novelist, according to BBC, was praised by the Swedish Academy as a writer “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”. His most famous novels The Remains of the Day […]
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Nigerian writer, Jowhor Ile has been announced the winner of the 2016 Etisalat Literature Prize at the Grand Finale in Lagos, which took place almost two months behind schedule. His book, And after Many Days was the pick of the panel of judges, over Jacqui L’Ange (South Africa) The Seed Thief and and another Nigerian […]
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Helon Habila, chair of the judging panel of the 2016 Etisalat Prize for Literature, has announced the 2016 longlist of nine books. The longlist is made up of entries from first-time authors whose books were published in the past 24 months. The longlisted books are Mr. and Mrs. Doctor by Julie Iromuanya (Coffee House Press, […]
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