Nneoma Ike-Njoku, winner of 2015 Awele Creative Trust (ACT) award, becomes the only Nigerian to be among the 5 winners for the scholarship. The award would see each of the three fiction winners €18000 ( close to a million in Nigerian currency). Among the 11 Nigerian that were shortlisted, she became the only one standing and delighted the organisers with her original and boldly ambitious proposal for 'Drift :a novel about a fictional Afro-Psych Rock band formed by college students in 1970s post-Civil War Lagos.
The Four Winners in Morland Writing Scholarships:
· Abdul Adan - Somalia
· Ayesha Harruna Attah – Ghana
· Lidudumalingani Mqombothi – South Africa
· Nneoma Ike-Njoku - Nigeria
The three fiction winners each received a grant of ₤18,000 to allow them to take a year off to write a book. Ayesha Harruna Attah won a non-fiction award of £27,000 to be paid over a year and a half to allow her additional time for research. The awards are based on submissions which include a book proposal and an excerpt of published writing.

Miles Morland said, “Last year our winners were all female. This year the blokes have fought back and we have perfect gender balance. All four winners have the potential to write books that will command global attention. This year we had a record 500 submissions, up from 345 last year. The most heartening thing is the breadth of talent; we had submissions from over thirty countries of which 106 came from Nigeria, a bubbling cauldron of writing talent, 51 from South Africa, 42 from Kenya, 17 from Zimbabwe and 12 from Ghana.

Michela Wrong, the Foundation Literary Director, said, “Meanwhile our twelve existing Scholars from the last three years have been writing hard. Our hope is that in 2017 at least two of our existing Scholars will publish the books they have written on their Scholarship year with more to follow soon after. I will be surprised if we don’t get ten published books from our existing Scholars.”

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obinnau

That yoruba name though!

Congrats to her!!


I found out that today is a very Dull day in nairaland....is it because of MMM crashing?

RagnarBankz:
That yoruba name though!

Congrats to her!!


I found out that today is a very Dull day in nairaland....is it because of MMM crashing?

Lol

She rep Igbo Kemi Olunloye rep Yoruba the difference is clear?

Erudite202:
She rep Igbo Kemi Olunloye rep Yoruba the difference is clear?

clear

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happy for her

I been think say na MMM

extra clear

Divepen1:
clear

AFONJAS won't like this news....

Igbo women are always ahead of other women in Nigeria....
She is one million times better than that minister of finance with a fake accent....

Keep making us proud

Was thinking it is MMM sef. Anything that starts wt M just de make front page anyhow. MMM will succeed in making d letter M d most influential letter in Nigeria. Even Seun needs to change his name to MMseun .

Lovely.
Congrats.

Igbo women....beauty and brain are like 5 and 6.

I thought I saw, MMM prize, until I read clearly

Walahi, I think say na MMM

She is not the first Nigerian to win the Miles Morland, please. Get your facts right! Akwaeke Emezi is currently on one. Lalasticlala please take note.

proud to be an ndigbo





Due to MMM
Suspension of withdrawal
1. Make sure you are very close to
your friends and relatives who are into MMM.
2.Observe their every movement
and monitor where they are going
to.
3. If you see any of them going
close to a River, Ocean or Stream, raise an alarm and invite the police.
4. If you see any of them talking to
him or herself, alert the nearest
psychiatrist hospital.
5. If any of them begins to behave
angrily and break or destroy things, please notify your friends
and use cow rope to tie the person
Please pass it round to save lives

Congrats to them all, including Lidudumalingani Mqombothi and Abdul Adan. I love their writing!

what is this one saying ? I thought they want to pin point mavrodi's location mchwww, chai na so 200k take worker ? f.g warned me but I was sing eldee's big boy song "is it ur money 2x" chai!

Kudos to her,more lubricant to her dexterous upper limbs,

slap1:
She is not the first Nigerian to win the Miles Morland, please. Get your facts right! Akwaeke Emezi is currently on one. Lalasticlala please take note.

That was caused by headline constraint

Erudite202:
She rep Igbo
Kemi Olunloye rep Yoruba
the difference is clear?

What you guys enjoy in all these kind of comments really beat me

Mischievous mods!

Trying to get traffic with anything that starts with M. since the MMM saga started.

Nice move