I am surprised and pleased to let you know that the shortlist for the Guardian First Book Award has been announced and An Elegy for Easterly is on it. It joins three novels, The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey, The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton, The Collected Works of TS Spivet by Reif Larsen and one non-fiction book, A Swamp Full of Dollars by Michael Peel. I am particularly delighted to see Reif on it, I met him in Australia in August and liked both him and TS Spivet very much indeed.
The winner is announced on 2 December in London, making that my last Easterly-related outing of the year. My penultimate event is in Oslo in mid-November: Klagesang for Easterly, the Norwegian version of my book, will be published on 12 November, and from the 17-19th, I will be in Oslo attending a festival celebrating African literature. I will be doing two panels, one with Chimamanda Adichie and Tsitsi Dangarembga and another with Binyavanga Wainaina and Niq Mhlongo. Do please spread the word if you know anyone in Oslo. Details here soon.
4 comments:
Congratulations!
Congratulations, Petina
Claire just wrote to tell me as well. BIG CONGRATULATIONS PETINA. Couldn't happen to a better writer or a more deserving person. I hope you win!
Rah, rah, Petinah!
You've got a month to practice your plate-throwing!
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