Ethiopian-American Novelist Dinaw Mengestu nominated for 2015 Folio prize
Three African writers are among the nominees for the 2015 Folio Prize: Damon Galgut, Kenyan Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and Ethiopian-American Dinaw Mengestu. The £40,000 prize was initiated last year, unofficially as a more literary alternative to the Man Booker Prize.… Read more ›