In her round-up of the African literary scene, Gail Collins visits the healthy crop of Africa-oriented literary awards around the world and settles down with some of the best writing from the continent coming our way this year.
I recently noticed something very special. 2021 put authors from the African continent on a truly global stage – Senegalese author David Diop won the International Booker Prize, South African author and playwright, Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize, Tanzanian writer, Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and so the list goes on. No surprise then, that 2022 seemed a bit tame on the international awards front.
But last year did actually produce literary winners. The continent and diaspora have slowly grown their own slew of literary awards, recognising exceptional creatives, whose words reveal their stories and culture to all who are willing to open their hearts and minds, and whose works are also simply great reads.
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