They've announced -- at least via 'tweet', if not yet at the official site, last I checked -- that We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo has been awarded the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature -- a prize for: "writers of African citizenship whose first fiction book (over 30,000 words) was published in the last twenty four (24) months".
(Less prominently noted is the fact that only books first published in English are eligible, excluding an enormous amount of African literature: they actually fail to even mention (admit ?) that under their 'Criteria for Entry' on this page, only mentioning even farther down that "Entries fulfilling the criteria listed below will be accepted until the 30th August 2013", among which is: "the book was first published in English".)
I haven't seen We Need New Names -- which has been doing very well on the awards-circuit, with various long-and short-listings -- but get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
(Less prominently noted is the fact that only books first published in English are eligible, excluding an enormous amount of African literature: they actually fail to even mention (admit ?) that under their 'Criteria for Entry' on this page, only mentioning even farther down that "Entries fulfilling the criteria listed below will be accepted until the 30th August 2013", among which is: "the book was first published in English".)
I haven't seen We Need New Names -- which has been doing very well on the awards-circuit, with various long-and short-listings -- but get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.