Tag: english literature
African Short Stories Prize Short List
This year’s short list for the Caine Prize for African Writing is rather phenomenal. Here’s the list with access to most of the stories full text:
- Tryphena Yeboah (Ghana) for ‘The Dishwashing Women’, Narrative Magazine (Fall 2022) – magazine website
- Nadia Davids (South Africa) for ‘Bridling’, The Georgia Review (2023) – magazine website
- Samuel Kolawole (Nigeria) for ‘Adjustment of Status’, New England Review, Vol. 44, #3 (Summer
2023) – pdf of story from Project Muse - Uche Okonkwo (Nigeria) for ‘Animals’, ZYZZYVA (2024) – magazine website
- Pemi Aguda (Nigeria) for ‘Breastmilk’, One Story, Issue #227 (2021) – excerpt on magazine website
The Judges–pictured below–have released a few statements about the submissions and a few of their thoughts on the range in the official press release.
As a head’s up, next is the Caine Prize 25th anniversary. There should be some exciting events!
Cheers,
Bee
New publication by Nick Paige from the French Department
Check out this new book by Department of French faculty member Nicholas Paige, available in print and as an ebook through the online catalog.
From introduction:
“This book is about the evolution of French and to a lesser degree English novels – by which I mean French- and English-language novels – from 1601 to 1830. And while evolution is very much at the center of my preoccupations, I do not offer a “story” about that evolution. There is no plot, as we might want if we thought of the novel moving forward, perhaps from birth, episode by episode, toward a resolution, some happy state of stability – as if, in other words, the novel’s own history could be made into a kind of novel.”
“In lieu of a story, Technologies of the Novel offers a quantitative account of the ceaseless yet patterned flux of the novel system over these twenty-three decades.”
“Technologies of the Novel is, then, digital and distant; but it is most certainly not antianalogue or anticlose.”
New Books in Literature
With every new month comes new books being published—and added to our library collection! This month’s haul includes criticism, poetry, prose, and much more:
Michael Healey
David Simmons
Jacqueline Saphra
Sheila McMullin
David Chariandy
Alexandra Silber
See the full list of new acquisitions here, and keep an eye on the English Library Guide for more featured new books.
Want to see a book that we don’t have? Request it here!