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Africa39

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • 361 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2014
  • 4 editions
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1 About this book

The Hay Festival brings its 39 Project to Port Harcourt, Nigeria, to identify the most promising writing talents under the age of 40 from Sub-Saharan Africa and its diaspora. From the list of 39 writers chosen by the judges, editor Allfrey has selected stories, extracts from novels, and other writings, many never before published, to create a collection of some of the most varied and exciting new work in world literature.

  • Short stories

2 About Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Born 1966

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE, Hon. FRSL (née Wakatama; born 16 September 1966), is the Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books, a senior Research Fellow at Manchester University, and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. She was the founding Publishing Director of the Indigo Press. A London-based editor and critic, she was on the judging panel of the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award and the 2015 Man Booker Prize.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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