Small presses loom large on International Booker prize longlist

Women Dominate Booker International Prize Shortlist  The New York TimesView Full coverage on Google News

Ten writers - including four from Africa - are in the running to win the £60,000 Man Booker International Prize.

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Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) has predicted long and heavy rains starting next month and has urged the people, especially those living in Dar es Salaam, to take precaution. TMA Director General Dr Agnes Kijazi said in the city that the ongoing rains ...

The winning author receives a cash prize, a high-end device, with his or her published e-book promoted online and via digital media platforms

Nigeria’s most innovative telecommunications company, Etisalat (http://www.etisalat.com.ng), has announced the 2014 Flash Fiction Prize category of the Etisalat Prize for literature. This award category which is in line with the company’s goal of inspiring and encouraging creativity is designed to celebrate the short form of storytelling.

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One of the richest anecdotal sources is the Nobel Prizes ‘field,’ about which one can write volumes!

The winner of the Man Booker Prize is to be announced later with Nigeria's Chigozie Obioma on the shortlist for the £50,000 ($76,000) prize.

Nigeria's Chigozie Obioma is among the six writers shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize for his novel The Fisherman.

Oscar Pistorius' defence team is challenging a medical report that claims his girlfriend ate a meal in the early hours of the morning.

>Business at the East African Legislative Assembly (Eala) came to a halt on Thursday evening as the MPs pressed for the ouster of the embattled Speaker, Margaret Zziwa.