Tanzanian-British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah on running out of money – and his take on the toppling of statues of controversial ...

Internationally acclaimed novelist and short story writer Sarah Hall has joined The University of Manchester as a Professor ...

Previous books were nominated for various awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Chapters First Novel Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. In January 2013 ...

She is the author of Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award ...

YOUNG writers smashed two records in last year’s Queen’s Commonwealth Essay competition. Students achieved 102 awards across the two age categories in 2024, breaking the previous record of 91, which ...

His first novel, The Consequences of Love, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and his second novel Silence is My Mother Tongue was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards ...

Internationally acclaimed novelist and short story writer Sarah Hall has joined The University of Manchester as a Professor of Creative Writing.Sarah joins a prestigious teaching team at the ...

Remember the grand old days of Canberra sport with unique events such as the Birdman Rally and the Commonwealth ...

which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and Purple Hibiscus, which was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, commonly known as Dear Ijeawele ...

It received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1995 as the best first novel in Africa. The book was also awarded the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature in the same year. Dr Ogola once revealed her ...