Longlist Announced for Africa's Etisalat Prize for Literature

The chair of the judging panel of the Etisalat Prize for Literature, Helon Habila, has announced this year's longlist of nine books. The Etisalat Prize classifies itself as 'the first pan-African award program in literature' and features first-time writers of published fiction. Eligible authors must hold citizenship in an African nation and have had a novel of more than 30,000 words published in the last two years.