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The winners of South Africa’s National Arts and Culture Awards (NACA) 2026 were announced at a ceremony at Sun City Resort in the North West Province on Friday, 21 August 2026. The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC) hosted the event, which was broadcast nationally on SABC 1 the following night, Saturday, 22 August […]
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The Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival 2026, themed “One Hand Don’t Clap: Caribbean Worlds, Writing Towards the Future” will be held in New York, USA, from September 9 – 13, 2026. The Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival is a celebration of culture as expressed through the pen of the storyteller and the voice of the poet. Founded […]
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The twenty writers on the Quramo Writers’ Prize 2026 longlist were revealed in Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday, September 5, 2026. The Quramo Writers’ Prize is an annual award for an unpublished fiction manuscript by an emerging writer. Nigeria-based Quramo Publishing founded the prize to encourage and stimulate a new community of talented writers and to […]
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The Première Sélection of the Prix Renaudot 2026 was announced in Paris, France, on Thursday, September 3, 2026. Here are the writers of African descent who made the list. The Prix Renaudot is a French literary prize founded in 1926 by ten journalists and critics who were waiting for the results of the Prix Goncourt […]
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Othuke Umukoro, Lorna Goodison, and Tolu Oloruntoba are among the finalists of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2026, announced on Monday, August 31, 2026. The Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry is awarded by Arrowsmith Press, in partnership with Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and The Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. It goes to a full-length book […]
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