Algeria – The Johannesburg Review of Books

Notes on Translating Marechera—Musaemura Zimunya expands on the songs and allusions in The House of Hunger for a new Brazilian edition

October 29, 2026October 29, 2026Musaemura B ZimunyaLeave a Comment

When the publisher of a new Brazilian edition of Dambudzo Marechera’s The House of Hunger needed help with the book’s…

Read an excerpt from a new edition of Alex La Guma’s A Soviet Journey, including the Foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

October 18, 2024October 18, 2024The JRBLeave a Comment

The JRB presents an excerpt from a new edition of A Soviet Journey by Alex La Guma: A Critical Annotated…

‘Powerful drama fused with its cerebral yet emotional writing’—Read Njabulo S Ndebele’s Foreword to the 60th anniversary edition of William ‘Bloke’ Modisane’s Blame Me on History

February 29, 2024February 29, 2024The JRBLeave a Comment

The JRB presents Njabulo S Ndebele’s Foreword to the new sixtieth-anniversary edition of William ‘Bloke’ Modisane’s Blame Me on History….

[Fiction Issue] ‘This was the only way. If she let him go, it would be the end’—Read an excerpt from Hamza Koudri’s debut novel Sand Roses

December 18, 2023December 18, 2023The JRBLeave a Comment

The JRB presents an excerpt from Sand Roses, the debut novel by Hamza Koudri. Sand RosesHamza KoudriHolland House Books, 2023…

[The JRB Daily] ‘There is a myth that there is only one type of storytelling in Africa’—Sarah Isaacs wins inaugural Island Prize for a Debut Novel from Africa

May 20, 2022May 20, 2022Jennifer MalecLeave a Comment

South African writer Sarah Isaacs has won the inaugural Island Prize for a Debut Novel from Africa with her manuscript…

[The JRB Daily] Finalists announced for the 2020 Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique—celebrating African writing in French, produced by African publishers

April 21, 2020April 21, 2020Jennifer MalecLeave a Comment

The six finalists for the 2020 Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique have been announced. The prize aims to promote…

Prix Femina and Prix Femina étranger longlists revealed—including Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and Olga Tokarczuk

October 1, 2018October 1, 2018Efemia ChelaLeave a Comment

It’s awards season in the French-speaking literary world! A number of big prizes revealed their longlists in the month of…

Snapshots of Death: Allegorical short fiction from Algerian writer Chawki Amari

February 5, 2018Efemia ChelaLeave a Comment

Two men are talking in a smoke-filled room. On the carved table in the middle of the sitting room is…

New translation of select essays by Mohamed Kacimi

June 5, 2017June 5, 2017Efemia ChelaLeave a Comment

Over at Asymptote Journal, a selection of Algerian writer Mohamed Kacimi’s essays have been translated from French into English by…