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| Nigerian Wins $10,000 Award For First Novel by HyeBits: 11:26am On Mar 08, 2012 |
Nigerian writer and blogger, Teju Cole, has won this year’s Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a ‘distinguished’ first book of fiction. PEN New England, a regional branch of the international writers organisation, and the Hemingway Foundation announced on Tuesday that Cole, 36, would receive $10,000 for ‘Open City.’ Cole’s story of a Nigerian doctor’s physical and spiritual journey also is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. The author grew up in Nigeria and currently lives in New York City. The Hemingway award was founded in 1976 by Mary Hemingway, widow of the Nobel laureate. Previous winners of the Hemingway prize include Marilynne Robinson and Edward P. Jones. According to his website, tejucole.com, he is a writer, art historian, street photographer and Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. It says he was “born in the US (1975) to Nigerian parents, raised in Nigeria. Lives in Brooklyn. Author of two books, a novella, Every Day is for the Thief, and a novel, Open City (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award). Contributor to the New York Times, Qarrtsiluni, Chimurenga, the New Yorker, Transition, Tin House, A Public Space, etc. Currently at work on a book-length non-fiction narrative of Lagos, and on Small Fates." http://www.punchng.com/news/nigerian-teju-cole-wins-10000-award-for-first-novel/ |
| Re: Nigerian Wins $10,000 Award For First Novel by Muttex(m): 1:36pm On Mar 08, 2012 |
Congratulations to you my brother, More progress to come. I hope you are part of NL? where are we celebrating this? |
| Re: Nigerian Wins $10,000 Award For First Novel by chines4(m): 1:56pm On Mar 08, 2012 |
Congrats |
| Re: Nigerian Wins $10,000 Award For First Novel by igbaodun: 2:42pm On Mar 08, 2012 |
Thank God I am not Ibo. Proud to be a Yoruba any day any time. 1 Yoruba brain >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>100 Ibo brains |
| Re: Nigerian Wins $10,000 Award For First Novel by NaMe4: 2:49pm On Mar 08, 2012 |
^^^ But South Africans & co no send that one. @ Topic Well done and congrats Mr. Cole. |
| Re: Nigerian Wins $10,000 Award For First Novel by Intrepid1(m): 3:08pm On Mar 08, 2012 |
igbaodun: And a tribalistic pig-defiler has popped out of the gutters to expose his retardation. Nice going, mate! Now you can crawl back to your shithole and continue inbreeding! |
| Re: Nigerian Wins $10,000 Award For First Novel by Businesstools(m): 3:13pm On Mar 08, 2012 |
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| Re: Nigerian Wins $10,000 Award For First Novel by Nobody: 4:09pm On Mar 08, 2012 |
igbaodun: Be more constructive brother, cannot see any relation between your post and topic |
| Re: Nigerian Wins $10,000 Award For First Novel by medjai(m): 6:12pm On Mar 08, 2012 |
One of those very few times we aren't making the news for the wrong reasons. Congrats. |
| Re: Nigerian Wins $10,000 Award For First Novel by noniboy231(m): 12:08am On Mar 09, 2012 |
Yoruba traibal fool\ |
| Re: Nigerian Wins $10,000 Award For First Novel by osasp(m): 4:19am On Mar 09, 2012 |
igbaodun: are you for real? you are a disgrace to yorubas. . .pull ur head out ur ass |
| Re: Nigerian Wins $10,000 Award For First Novel by zeelz: 10:31am On Mar 09, 2012 |
@intrepid! Nice one well served at igbaodun, he thinks he can com here and talk stupid. @igbaodun pls take note NL is 4 enlightened minds |
| Re: Nigerian Wins $10,000 Award For First Novel by Nobody: 12:08pm On Mar 09, 2012 |
igbaodun:I'm Yoruba but not as shallow minded as you. SHAME ON YOU! |
| Re: Nigerian Wins $10,000 Award For First Novel by roddk(m): 3:16am On Mar 10, 2012 |
Congrats to Him n many more of us hustling to make a livelihood |
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