They've announced the shortlist for the new Etisalat Prize for Literature -- "the first Pan-African literary prize created to recognize and reward debut fiction writers in Africa" (as long as they write in English ...).
Three titles on the shortlist -- NoViolet Bulawayo's already much-praised and prize-contending We Need New Names, as well as two less well-known works now getting some deserved attention.
Also, since people seem to focus on this sort of thing (rather than the books ...): all three shortlisted authors are women.
Three titles on the shortlist -- NoViolet Bulawayo's already much-praised and prize-contending We Need New Names, as well as two less well-known works now getting some deserved attention.
Also, since people seem to focus on this sort of thing (rather than the books ...): all three shortlisted authors are women.