Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
Auteur van Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara
Over de Auteur
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is an editor, critic, and broadcaster. The former deputy editor of Granta magazine and Chair of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize judging panel, she is a series editor for the Kwani? Manuscript Project, the Deputy Chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing, and patron toon meer of the Etisalat Literature Prize. A member of the judging panel for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, she was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to the publishing industry. She lives in London, England. toon minder
Werken van Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
Skald: The Short Story Collection: 6 Original Crime & Thriller Short Stories (2018) — Redacteur — 7 exemplaren
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New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Medewerker — 88 exemplaren
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Africa 39, New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara was commissioned as a Hay Festival Project – there’s a similar collection called Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World. The 39 writers who are included had to be under 40, and to come from the region or diaspora. The collection includes well-known authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Purple Hibiscus; Half of a Yellow Sun; and Americanah) and Taiye Selasi (Ghana Must Go) but most of them are writers I’ve never heard of although many of them have published prize-winning novels and short stories. I did read Adichie’s story ‘The Shivering’ (because it was first in the collection) but my criteria for choosing which ones to read was the countries of origin, and the authors I chose came from Malawi; Ivory Coast (Cote D’Ivoire); Liberia, Angola, Uganda and Zambia.
To see my thoughts about these half dozen stories, please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2018/03/04/africa-39-new-writing-from-africa-south-of-t...… (meer)