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2004 Caine Prize Winner Announced

Brian Chikwava, from Zimbabwe, has won the fifth Caine Prize for African Writing for ‘Seventh Street Alchemy’ from Writing Still, Weaver Press, Harare 2003. The result was announced by the Chair of the judges, Alvaro Ribeiro, at a dinner held this evening (Monday, 19 July) in ...
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APNET revamps its website

PNET has relaunched its website in French and English. A Portuguese version is under construction. The new site includes online issues of the African Publishing ...
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African-based organisations invited to take over management of African Journals OnLine (AJOL)

INASP - the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications – is inviting expressions of interest from African-based organisations in undertaking the management of the existing African Journals OnLine (AJOL) service...
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Sisulu biography wins Noma Award 2003

Elinor Sisulu’s biography of Walter and Albertina Sisulu has won the 24th Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, a hat-trick for Cape Town publishers David Philip.
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Caine Prize 2004 shortlist announced

Five African writers have been shortlisted for this year's Caine Prize for African Writing. The winner of the US$ 15,000 prize will be announced on 19 July, in Oxford, England.
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APNET General Council meeting postponed

The APNET Board has today informed delegates and invitees that APNET’s 6th General Council Meeting, earlier scheduled to be held in Johannesburg from 26 to 28 April 2004, has been
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Montreal selected as World Book Capital 2005

At a meeting held in Paris on 16 February, representatives of the International Publishers Association (IPA), International Booksellers Federation (IBF), International Federation of Library
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Pleasure Through Reading - Zambia

This project uses television programmes to stimulate and promote reading in Zambia. The project is being promoted by Window Images-Media in
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New Chairperson for Nigeria International Book Fair

Mr Yinka Lawal-Solarin has been elected as Chair of the Nigeria International Book Fair. The election took place at the
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John Maxwell Coetzee wins the Nobel Prize for Literature 2003

The Swedish Academy have announced that South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2003.
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Crossing Borders programme Phase 2 (West Africa) under way

The Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University is running a distance-learning programme for African writers who already have some experience in poetry ...
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