AfLit Association Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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The ALA is proud to announce that the 2021 award season has finally concluded. The winner of the ALA's First Book Award (Scholarship) is: Tobias Warner, The Tongue-Tied Imagination: Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal (Fordham UP, 2019)! Congratulations, Tobias!

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1/2. The deadline for 2020 Sillerman Book Prize for African Poet is Dec 1. Previous winners include Tjawanga Dema for "Careless Seamstress," Bernard Matambo for "Stray," Safia Elhillo for "The January Children." Winner receives $1000 & publication by Univ. of Nebraska Press.

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FIRST BOOK AWARD - SCHOLARSHIP Cajetan Iheka, Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature, Cambridge, 2017 (2/5)

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Sylvie Kandé is a Franco-Senegalese historian & the author of 3 collections of poetry, including La quête infinie de l’autre rive: épopée en trois chants. An English translation, by A. Dickow, of The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore is forthcoming from Wesleyan UP in 2022.

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Congratulations to Damon Galgut, whose The Promise won the 2021 Booker Prize. Congratulations too to Booker finalist @thesailorsgirl. A remarkable year for the recognition of African writing in literary prizes.

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BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD - SCHOLARSHIP Madhu Krishnan, Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel, James Currey, 2018 BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD - CREATIVE WRITING Joyce Ash, Beautiful Fire, Spears Media Press, 2018 (3/5)

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First Book Award Honorable Mention: Congratulations to @caramoyerduncan for Projecting Nation: South African Cinemas After 1994 (Michigan State UP, 2020)! https://t.co/BjxCtSogyj

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"The realities of growing up with such a crowd and coming to understand the vicissitudes of siblinghood and the sacredness of consanguinity in the Igbo/Yoruba culture inspired The Fishermen" (Interview with the Booker shortlisted Chigozie Obioma in #JALA) https://t.co/8Op0r6d4mL

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Graduate Student Award: Congratulations to Elizabeth Abena Osei for ‘”She was hiding in the best possible way, masquerading as herself”: Post-Censorship, Afrofuturist Elements and Re-purposing Traditional African Elements in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber’!

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ABIOSEH PORTER AWARD Ernest Cole, “Decentering Anthropocentrism: Human-animal Relations in Aminatta Forna’s Happiness” Journal of the African Literature Association 12.3 (2018) 287-305. (4/5)