Alert! The shortlists for the 2015 FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards have been announced. The three finalists for the Fiction Prize are: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor for Dust, Scholastique Mukasonga for Our Lady of the Nile and Chigozie Obioma for The Fishermen.
Obioma was recently longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
The shortlistees for the Emerging Voices art category, which is open to people from Latin America and the Caribbean, are Fabiola Menchelli Tejeda, Pablo Mora Ortega and Cristina Planas. Shubhashish Bhutiani, Yuhang Ho, Mont Tesprateep and Han Ting are the finalists in the film category, open to the Asia-Pacific area.
The award aims to “recognise extraordinary artistic talent”. The Fiction Prize is open to fiction published in English by writers from Africa and the Middle East. Nine of the 10 authors featured in the fiction longlist were from Africa, including South Africans Mandla Langa and Ingrid Winterbach, and all of the shortlisted authors are from this continent.
The winner will be announced at a gala dinner at the New York Public Library on 5 October, along with the winners of the art and film prizes. The grand prize is worth $40 000.
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- Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
EAN: 9781783781317
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- Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
EAN: 9780914671039
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- The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
EAN: 9780992918248
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