{"product_id":"africa39-book-ellah-wakatama-allfrey-9781408854662","title":"Africa39","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfrica 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing the successful launch of \u003ci\u003eBogotá39\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 Vásquez (short-listed for the IFFP), and \u003ci\u003eBeirut39\u003c\/i\u003e which published Randa Jarrar, Rabee Jaber, Joumana Haddad, Abdellah Taia and Samar Yazbek, \u003ci\u003eAfrica39\u003c\/i\u003e will bring to worldwide attention the best work from Africa and its diaspora. The judges will select from up to 200 submissions researched by Binyavanga Wainaina, the founding editor of the acclaimed Nairobi-based literary magazine \u003ci\u003eKwani?\u003c\/i\u003e, and the writers' names will be unveiled in Port Harcourt and at the London Book Fair in April 2014. \u003ci\u003eAfrica39\u003c\/i\u003e will be published in English throughout the world by Bloomsbury.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfrica39\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe three judges are: \u003cbr\u003eMargaret Busby (UK – publisher, broadcaster and reviewer, chair of the Commonwealth Prize and editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eDaughters of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003eElechi Amadi (Nigeria – author of plays, memoir and novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Slave\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEstrangement\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Woman of Calabar\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003eOsonye Tess Onwueme (Nigeria\/USA – playwright, poet and scholar, whose works include \u003ci\u003eRiot in Heaven \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhat Mama Said\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49521077715217,"sku":"GOR006167124","price":20.89,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49607065207057,"sku":"GOR011716291","price":20.89,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/140885466X.jpg?v=1751208680","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/africa39-book-ellah-wakatama-allfrey-9781408854662","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}