Tendai Huchu has shared the inaugural Nommo Award for Best
Short Story, which was presented on November 16 during the Ake Festival in
Abeokuta, Nigeria, for his story 'The Marriage Plot'. Tendai shared the award
with Lesley Nneka Arimah, for her story 'Who Will Greet You At Home'.
Other winners at the Nommo Awards were Tade Thompson's Rosewater, as Best Novel, Nnedi
Okorafor's Binti, as Best Novella,
and Chimurenga's 'Chronic: The Corpse Exhibition and Older Graphic Stories', as
Best Comic or Graphic Novel.
The Nommo Awards are decided by voting amongst the members
of the African Speculative Fiction Society, and are open to all African
writers.
Tendai Huchu's second novel The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician is published by
amaBooks, who have also recently included his short story 'The Library of the
Dead', a speculative fiction piece, in their latest anthology, Moving On and Other Zimbabwean Stories. 'amaBooks
are presently involved in a workshop, led by American academic James Arnett, for
potential speculative fiction writers in Bulawayo.
The Maestro, The
Magistrate and The Mathematician is also available from Parthian Press in
the UK, Ohio University Press in North America, Farafina in Nigeria, Peter
Hammer in Germany and through jamalon.com. Moving
On and Other Zimbabwean Stories is available in North America through
africanbookscollective.com, elsewhere through jamalon.com, and will soon be
available through Parthian Press in the UK. Both books are available in South
Africa at African Flavour Books (Johannesburg), Bridge Books (Johannesburg),
Clarke's Bookshop (Cape Town), Love Books (Johannesburg), The Book Cottage
(Hermanus) and The Book Lounge (Cape Town).
Lesley Nneka Arimah's short story anthology What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky was
named as one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Time Magazine, Elle, the
Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe and others, and is a finalist for the Kirkus
Prize.
Tendai Huchu's 'The Marriage Plot' can be read at https://omenana.com/2016/03/25/the-marriage-plot/
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