The shortlist for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize has been announced. South African writer Alex Latimer and South Africa-based…
The shortlist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize, celebrating the ‘finest works of translated fiction from around the world’, has…
Kigali-based Huza Press has just released the English translation of Yolande Mukagasana’s Not My Time To Die, translated by Zoe Norridge….
The longlist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize has been announced. Thirteen novels are in contention for the prize,…
The longlist for the Short Story Day Africa Prize for Short Fiction has been announced. The prize was founded in…
«S’il vous plaît … un petit peu de sommeil … un petit peu de cette douce et agréable absence ……
The Goethe-Institut Sub-Saharan Africa has announced the selection for the AfroYoungAdult project. The project was launched last year, with the…
Ivorian author Véronique Tadjo has been announced as the head judge of the new Prix Orange du Livre en Afrique…
Journalist, author and anti-apartheid activist Hugh Lewin has died, aged seventy-nine. Lewin passed away at his home in Killarney, Johannesburg…
This December marked the twentieth issue of The JRB, and the twelfth of the year. With the festive season reaching…
