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Poet and teacher Jaki Shelton Green has been announced as the new Poet Laureate of North Carolina. As the ninth..
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Tsitsi Jaji has been named winner of the 2018 Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for her collection of poems, Mother..
Author of the famous novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has won the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize...
Poet, art critic, professor, author of thirteen poetry books, and numerous books of fiction and art criticism, John Yau, has..
Winners of the 2018 Lambda Literary Awards have been announced. The announcement was made at a ceremony in New York..
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Nigerian journalist and novelist, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, has emerged as winner of the 2018 Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in..
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