Masobe Books has fixed July 17, 2024 as the publication day for “After The End”, the sophomore novel of the Nigeria Prize for Literature nominee Olukorede S. Yishau. The publisher describes the novel as a poignant exploration of grief, closure…
Quramo Writers’ Prize announces 2021 longlist
Quramo Publishing Limited (Organisers of the Quramo Festival of Words, QFest) has announced the longlist for the annual Quramo Writers’ Prize (QWP). The list of 10 manuscripts was selected from a total of 351 entries received on the portal for…
Jude Idada, Olukorede Yishau, others for University of Iowa creative writing programme
Nigeria Prize for Literature winner Jude Idada and author of In the Name of Our Father Olukorede S. Yishau are two of the four Nigerians nominated by the United States Mission in Nigeria for the University of Iowa’s programme tagged ‘Telling…
Jude Idada wins $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature
Jude Idada’s Boom Boom has won the Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited, for the 2019 cycle on Children’s Literature. Boom Boom beat Mysteries at Ebenezer’s Lodge by Dunni Olatunde and The Great Walls of Benin by…
The Nigeria Prize for Literature will get Nigerians reading again – Jude Idada
Jude Idada, whose children’s book Boom Boom is one of the three shortlisted in this year’s edition of the Nigeria Prize for Literature worth $100,000 to the winner, has said that the prize sponsored by Nigeria LNG Ltd, will get…
Idada, Olatunde, Begho make final shortlist for NLNG’s Literature Prize
The Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature today announced Jude Idada’s Boom Boom, Dunni Olatunde’s Mystery at Ebenezer Lodge and O.T. Begho’s The Great Walls of Benin as finalists for the 2019 The Nigeria Prize for Literature, worth…
11 authors make the initial shortlist for the Nigeria Prize for Literature 2019
The longlist for the 2019 Nigeria Prize for Literature has been announced by the Nigeria LNG Limited, which sponsors the $100,000 award. The announcement was made on social media via Facebook live Thursday and in a statement by the company’s…
NLNG announces longlist of 11 for 2019 Literature Prize
The longlist for the 2019 Nigeria Prize for Literature has been announced by the Nigeria LNG Limited, which sponsors the $100,000 award. The announcement was made on social media via Facebook live Thursday. Anne-Marie Palmer-Ikuku, who is Nigeria LNG Limited’s…
CORA, NPL book party holds August 25
The annual book party in honour of those who make the longlist of the prestigious $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature (NPL) holds on Saturday, August 25 at Terra Kulture Arena, Victoria Island, Lagos. Organised by the Committee for Relevant Art…
Idada, Gomba again on the NLNG’s Literature Prize longlist of 11
Jude Idada and Obari Gomba have yet again been listed in the Nigeria LNG’s annual literature prize longlist of 11 announced in a statement on Thursday by Andy Odeh, Manager, Corporate Communication and Public Affairs of the gas company. Idada,…