The longlists for the FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards have been announced, with the fiction category being dominated by African authors.
The fiction section for the inaugural edition of the awards was open to authors from Africa and the Middle East, but nine of the 10 longlisted writers are from Africa – including South Africans Mandla Langa and Ingrid Winterbach – with just one author from a non-African country: Elias Khoury of Lebanon.
Langa and Winterbach are longlisted ahead of big names such as Christopher Hope, Damon Galgut, Imraan Coovadia, Mia Couto and Nuruddin Farah, who are all on the list of entries.
The awards also acknowledge Latin American and Caribbean artists and Asia-Pacific filmmakers, with over 100 countries in total represented, and offer $40 000 to each individual winner. The judges aim to reward those whose work shows outstanding talent and in some way furthers global understanding of their region.
Finalists for each category will be announced on 7 August and winners will be announced at a gala awards ceremony in New York on 5 October.
The longlists:
FICTION
• Blackass by A Igoni Barrett, Chatto & Windus, Nigeria
• Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol by Elias Khoury, Maclehose Press, Lebanon
• Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Granta Books, Kenya
• It Might Get Loud by Ingrid Winterbach, Human & Rousseau, South Africa
• Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga, Archipelago Books, Rwanda
• The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah, Faber & Faber, Zimbabwe
• The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma, Pushkin Press, Nigeria
• The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, Oneworld Publications, Algeria
• The Texture of Shadows by Mandla Langa, Picador Africa, South Africa
• Women of Karantina by Nael Eltoukhy, The American University in Cairo Press, Egypt
ART
• Cristina Planas, Peru
• Fabiola Menchelli Tejeda, Mexico
• Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Colombia
• Hugo Arquímedes Carrillo García, Mexico
• Marcela Ramirez-Aza, Colombia
• Pablo Mora Ortega, Colombia
• Sebastian Castañeda, Peru
FILM
• Endless Nameless by Mont Tesprateep, Thailand
• Exclaim by Jian Mei, China
• Kush by Shubhashish Bhutiani, India
• Scent of the Morning Sun by Harin Paesongthai & Monkum Khukhuntin, Thailand
• Selfie Girls by Huỳnh Nguyeễn Đăng Khoa, Vietnam
• The Concrete by Wei Liu, China
• The Last Mango Before the Monsoon by Payal Kapadia, India
• The Sea by Han Ting, China
• Trespassed by Yuhang Ho, Malaysia
• Under the Sun by Qiu Yang, China
Book details
- Blackass by A Igoni Barrett
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EAN: 9781555977337
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- The Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol by Elias Khoury
EAN: 9780857053640
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- Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
EAN: 9781783781317
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- It Might Get Loud by Ingrid Winterbach, translated by Michiel Heyns
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EAN: 9780798167512
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- Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
EAN: 9780914671039
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- The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
EAN: 9780571249626
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- The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
EAN: 9780992918248
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- Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
EAN: 9781780748399
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- The Texture of Shadows by Mandla Langa
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EAN: 9781770103863
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- Women of Karantina by Nael Eltoukhy
EAN: 9789774166624
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