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JUST IN: NLNG announces winner of $100,000 Literature Prize

FOR THE NIGERIA LITERATURE PRIZE S CONTENDERS, A HEROES PARTY …

FOR THE NIGERIA LITERATURE PRIZE S CONTENDERS, A HEROES PARTY …
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With Eyes Riveted On $100,000, 11 Vie For The Nigeria Prize For Literature

Books Activities swirling around this year’s edition of The Nigeria Literature Prize (sponsored by NLNG) have started revving up with its advisory board’s recent announcement of a shortlist of 11. This shortlist – which not a few literary enthusiasts would rather call a longlist – was drawn from 202 entries in contention for this year’s – 2021 – edition of the prize. Another shortlist of three, from which a possible winner could emerged, is expected to be announced in September, a statement signed by the NLNG’s General Manager, External Relations and Sustainable Development Eyono Fatayi-Williams reminded the literary community. The prize, which rotates annually among four broad literary categories – namely, prose fiction, poetry, drama and children’s literature – is worth $100,000, which will be awarded by the advisory board in October. It runs concurrently with the Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism (also sponsored by NLNG), which is valued at N1 million. T

11 writers vie for $100,000 literature prize

The Nigeria Prize for Literature The Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature, yesterday, announced a shortlist of 11 drawn from 202 books in the running for the 2021 edition of the award. The list was presented by the chairman, panel of judges for this year’s prize, Prof. Toyin Jegede, a professor of Literature in English at the University of Ibadan. The other jurists are Prof. Tanimu Abubakar and Dr. Solomon Azumurana. Abubakar is a professor of Literature in the Faculty of Art, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, while Azumurana is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Lagos.

Eleven authors in contention for $100,000 The Nigeria Prize for Literature

Eleven authors in contention for $100,000 The Nigeria Prize for Literature
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