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December 14, 2017 The Caine Prize for African Writing has announced the five judges for the 2018 Prize. Georgetown University’s nomination to the panel, Dinaw Mengestu, will serve as the Chair of judges. An award winning Ethiopian-American novelist and writer, Dinaw is the former Chair in Poetry at the Lannan Foundation at Georgetown. He will…
Matt Karr/Getty Images What’s So “Inscrutable” About Kazuo Ishiguro? The author has now won the Nobel Prize. But critics are still struggling to understand him. BY JOSEPHINE LIVINGSTONE October 5, 2017 Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go has several different directions: It looks backward, forward, and sideways. The setting is Hailsham, an academy strongly flavored by the British…
Nnedi Okorafor and the Fantasy Genre She Is Helping Redefine By ALEXANDRA ALTEROCT. 6, 2017 Photo Nnedi Okorafor at home in Chicago.CreditLyndon French for The New York Times Nearly 25 years ago, Nnedi Okorafor was visiting relatives in Isiekenesi, Nigeria, when she asked her grand uncle a sensitive question. What could he tell her about Nsibidi, an old and…
2017 FALL CULTURE PREVIEW The author, whose previous novel is slated to become an HBO series, releases Akata Warrior this fall. BY ADAM MORGAN PUBLISHED MONDAY AT 10:48 A.M. PHOTO: COLLEEN DURKIN Growing up, Nnedi Okorafor never envisioned a career as a writer. She had her eye on tennis. Nationally ranked at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, the daughter…
BRUNCH Updated: Sep 05, 2017 15:50 IST Team Brunch Hindustan Times Salman Rushdie says the process of writing his new novel, The Golden House, was simple (Beowulf Sheehan) The British Indian novelist and essayist has authored several novels, a book of short stories and a few pieces of non fiction too. A Fellow of the British…
About the Journal Books & Ideas is the English-language parent site of La Vie des Idées, a humanities and social science online journal powered by the Collège de France, Paris. Since 2007, La Vie des Idées has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate, and is now developing an international…
2nd Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) International Conference 22-24 March 2018 University of the Witwatersrand CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS Conference Theme Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) is a research network launched in July 2015 with the aim to foster the theory and practice of narrative as a field of study […] via CFP:…
AUGUST 31, 2017 JENNIFER NANSUBUGA MAKUMBI’S novel Kintu, about a cursed family confronting the vicissitudes of a changing Uganda, is a highly engrossing read. To some, apparently, this may come as a surprise.Kintu (pronounced “Chintu”) was published in Kenya in 2014; Makumbi won the Kwani? Manuscript Project award, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and she was…
With alarming alacrity and frequency, I get a message via email or on social media from a young person that reads something like, “Dear Mr Huchu, I am a writer from _____, and I would like you to be my mentor….” I confess that, initially, this was a source of some bafflement and bemusement for…
VIA KNOPF AYOBAMI ADEBAYO ON INFERTILITY IN THE NIGERIAN NOVEL August 23, 2017 By Ayobami Adebayo In the peculiar hierarchy of African households the only rung lower than motherless child is childless mother. Taiye Selasi, “The Sex Lives of African Girls” I know of a Nigerian couple who had been married for three decades before they had their first child. It’s an…
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