![]() ![]() The book that received most nominations this year is Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, which was chosen by fifteen libraries in Belgium, Estonia, Greece, Sweden and the USA. Forty-eight are titles in translation, spanning eighteen languages, and twenty-five are debut novels. The 150 books on this year’s longlist were nominated by libraries in 111 cities and thirty-seven countries. Mashigo, Mohlele and Omotoso were nominated by the City of Cape Town Library and Information Services. Omotoso’s The Women Next Door, meanwhile, was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize and the UJ Prize. Mashigo and Mohlele are riding high this year, having recently been announced as the winners of the University of Johannesburg Prizes for South African Writing in English. South Africa’s Mohale Mashigo ( The Yearning), Nthikeng Mohlele ( Pleasure) and Yewande Omotoso ( The Woman Next Door) have made the longlist, along with Yaa Gyasi ( Homegoing), Imbolo Mbue ( Behold the Dreamers) and Joseph Wanshe ( Living Memories). The award is worth €100,000, with nominations being submitted by library systems in major cities throughout the world. ![]() Six African authors have made the longlist for the International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. ![]()
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