Salesgirl docked for stealing N154,000, granted N100,000 bail (Vanguard) A salesgirl, Anuoluwapo Bakare, who allegedly stole her employer’s N154,000 was on Thursday arraigned at the Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Bakare, who resides in the Dopemu Agege area of Lagos,…
Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke win Nobel Prize for Literature for 2018 and 2019 (BBC)
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austria’s Peter Handke have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Two winners were named – one for 2019 and one for 2018 – because the prize was not awarded last year. The Swedish Academy,…
Man Booker International prize: Jokha Alharthi wins for ‘Celestial Bodies’ (Guardian)
Jokha Alharthi, the first female Omani novelist to be translated into English, has won the Man Booker International prize for her novel Celestial Bodies. Alharthi, the £50,000 award’s first winner to write in Arabic, shares the prize equally with her…
Man Booker announces 2019 longlist
The Man Booker International Prize has revealed the ‘Man Booker Dozen’ of 13 novels in contention for the 2019 prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world. The prize awarded every year for a single…