British author Helen Oyeyemi reveals her top criteria for a great read, and why the Man Booker International Prize 2018 shortlist has them all.…
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2018 Fage and Oliver Prize (in alphabetical order): Atekmangoh, Christina: “Les Mbengis”-Migration, Gender, and Family: The…
But some Francophone writers are not impressed A PHILOSOPHY graduate and unpublished novelist, Emmanuel Macron treats French culture like a national treasure, and the…
By Ian Youngs, Entertainment & arts reporter 8 March 2018 Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi moved to the UK from Uganda at the age of 34…
Doris Lessing left her marriage and children to write. Seventy-five years on, Lara Feigel examines the author’s maternal ambivalence and explores her own struggle…
Thirteen-year-old Marley Dias, who two years ago famously launched a book drive to provide young black girls with books featuring main characters who looked…
For many years, Amos Tutuola, the Nigerian author who was born in 1920 and died in 1997, was despised, ridiculed and made to appear…
Devisch, Rene. 2017. Body and Affect in the Intercultural Encounter. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa / Leiden: African Studies Centre. ISBN-10: 9956-764-01-9; ISBN-13: 978-9956-764-01-3. xvii +…
New figures show that fewer UK writers earn enough to live on, as ACE blames falling sales of literary fiction on the recession and…
Alice O’Keeffe In our digital age, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel prize is a reminder that it is still novels that ask the biggest questions ‘Serious…