The Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature has unveiled the longlist of 11 books contending for the prestigious 2024 prize, selected from a competitive pool of 163 entries. This year’s focus is on children’s literature, highlighting the importance…
The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2024 opens call for submissions
The Nigeria Prize for Literature has announced the commencement of submissions for the 2024 edition. This prestigious award, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited, seeks to recognise and honour the author of the best book by a Nigerian writer. The prize,…
287 poets compete for $100,000 in NLNG’s Literature Prize
The 2022 edition The Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) will have 287 poets compete for the $100,000 Prize. At a ceremony in Lagos today, Thursday 21 April the entries received were handed over to the…
Ogaga Ifowodo, Anote Ajeluorou headline opening of Asaba airport Flomat Books stand Sunday
A former professor of literature at Texas State University, Austin, U.S., lawyer and author of many poetry collections including A Good Mourning shortlisted for The Nigeria Prize for Literature 2017, Dr Ogaga Ifowodo and author of children’s book, ‘Igho Goes…
NLNG mourns Professor Jerry Agada
Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), the sponsor of The Nigeria Prize for Literature, has expressed shock and sadness over the loss of one of the Prize’s Advisory Board members, Professor Jerry Agada, who died on Tuesday, 22nd December 2020, after a…
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…
Shortlist of 3 emerges for The Nigeria Prize for Literature
The Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature has approved a final shortlist of three books out of the longlist of 11 released in July 2018. A statement Sunday by Manager, Communications and Public Affairs, Andy Odeh, names the…