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English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of novelists from Africa, ...
Barnaba Zingani (b. 1958), novelist in Chichewa and English, teacher. Willie Zingani (b. 1954), novelist in English and Chichewa, journalist, poet, playwright [35] Tendai M Shaba (b. 1989), author, writer and poet [36] See: List of Malawian writers
The best-known is the Kebra Negast, or "Book of Kings" from the 14th century AD. [1] Another well-known book is the Garima Gospels, one of the oldest known surviving bibles in the world, written in Ge'ez around 500 AD. [2] A common theme during the colonial period is the slave narrative, often written in English or French for western audiences.
Fouad al-Tikerly, best known for his novel al-Rajea al-Baeed, translated into English as The Long Way Back; Haifa Zangana (born 1950), in Baghdad; Hazim Kamaledin (born 1954), best known for his novel Desertified Waters, translated in Ducht as Schoonheid raast in mij tot ik sterf, Longlist International Prize for Arabic Fiction; Ibtisam Abdallah
Considered the most important founding figure of English-language literature in West Africa, Chinua Achebe, winner of the 2002 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, made his debut as a novelist and poet with Things Fall Apart (1958), [8] [9] which, along with No Longer at Ease (1960), [10] [11] is his magnum opus. His novels place African ...
Books in the series have also won the Commonwealth Prize, the NOMA Award for African Writing, the Caine Prize for African Writing, and Guardian Fiction Prize. In 2002, at a celebration of Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century, Heinemann was given a prize, as 12 of the titles chosen were from the series. [18]
The following is a list of notable works of fiction which are set in South Africa: Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee; Karoo Boy by Troy Blacklaws; Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer; The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer; Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful by Alan Paton; Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton; Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton ...
Beasts of Prey (novel) The Beggar of Volubilis; A Bend in the River; The Best Ye Breed; Black Empire (novel) Black Man's Burden; Black Mischief; Blue Warrior; Bomba, the Jungle Boy; Border, Breed nor Birth; Bravelands; Burton and Speke (novel) By the Gods Beloved