Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth
century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and
the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and
Doris Lessing, to more recent talents like Nuruddin Farah, Ben
Okri, Aminatta Forna and Brian Chikwava. Who will be the next
generation? Following the successful launch of Bogota39, which
identified many of the most interesting upcoming Latin American
talents, including Daniel Alarcon, Junot Diaz (Pulitzer Prize),
Santiago Roncagliolo (Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and Juan
Gabriel Vasquez (short-listed for the IFFP), and Beirut39 which
published Randa Jarrar, Rabee Jaber, Joumana Haddad, Abdellah Taia
and Samar Yazbek, Africa39 will bring to worldwide attention the
best work from Africa and its diaspora. From the dazzling list of
39 writers chosen by the judges, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has
selected richly rewarding short stories, extracts from novels,
fables and other work by writers from Africa south of the Sahara,
or its diaspora, and created a collection of some of the most
varied and exciting new work in world literature today. Africa39 is
a Hay Festival and Rainbow Book Club project which aims to select
and celebrate 39 of the best young African writers from south of
the Sahara. It will be launched at the PH Book Festival in UNESCO's
World Book Capital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in October 2014. The
three judges are: Margaret Busby, Elechi Amadi, Osonye Tess Onwueme
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