The Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature has announced the longlist of 11 plays in contention for the 2023 edition of the prize. The prize, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited, offers a cash award of $100,000. The longlist,…
Nigeria Prize for Literature receives 143 entries, a record 61% increase in Drama cycle
The Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), has recorded a remarkable 61% increase in entries for Drama cycle, with 143 entries received for the 2023 edition against 89 entries in the last Drama cycle in 2018.…
Last word on Nigerian literature at year-end — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
No year ever dies because it carries its remains into the next. As 2022 cedes place to 2023, Nigerian writers are still hard at work projecting the gains of the old year into the New Year and the vast future…
A Special Plea on Nigeria Prize for Literature — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
The celebrated season of the Nigeria Prize for Literature always ends on the note of winner-takes-all. It is incumbent on me to plead now that the longlisted and shortlisted authors be also rewarded with cash. While the overall winner goes…
Rainbow Book Club to host 2022 Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlisted poets in Port Harcourt
The Rainbow Book Club (RBC) in conjunction with Nigeria LNG Limited, sponsors of the Nigeria Prize for Literature will on Sunday 18 September hold a grand reception for the three shortlisted poets in contention for the $100, 000 Nigeria Prize…
11 poets make longlist of Nigeria Prize for Literature
The Advisory Board for the Nigeria Prize for Literature on Friday released the longlist of 11 entries from 287 books of poetry submitted for the 2022 edition of the prestigious prize. In an announcement of the longlist made virtually by…
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe wins $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe’s The Son of the House has won the 2021 edition of the Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited and worth $100, 000 to the winner. Onyemelukwe’s book emerged ahead of Abi Dare (The Girl with…
CORA, NLNG stages book party for writers shortlisted in $100k Nigeria Prize for Literature
The eleven novelists shortlisted for the 2021 Nigeria Prize for Literature (NPL), will be on parade on Sunday August 8 at the Eko Hotel & Suites, VI, Lagos as the 12th CORA-NPL Book Party holds. The Committee for Relevant Art…
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…
NLNG names Adimora-Ezeigbo Literature Prize Board chair as 2021 cycle begins
Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has announced the appointment of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, emeritus professor of English at the University of Lagos, as the chairperson of the Advisory Board for the Nigeria Prize for Literature to flag off the 2021 cycle of…