amaBooks: Togara Muzanenhamo wins the 2022 Luschei Prize for African Poetry

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Togara Muzanenhamo wins the 2022 Luschei Prize for African Poetry

Togara Muzanenhamo has won the 2022 Luschei Prize for African Poetry for his book Virga published by Carcanet. To read the Luschei Prize's guest judge @matthewshenoda's comments and learn more about the finalists, visit: https://t.co/ZmT2CiuYVn

Togara's poetry was published in Zimbabwe by amaBooks in the anthology Textures, together with poetry from John Eppel. Textures won the Zimbabwe National Arts Merit Award for Outstanding Fiction in 2016. It is available in Zimbabwe through Inganu Bookshop at the Orange Elephant, River Estate, 12th Avenue Extension, Bulawayo (WhatsApp +263 772 851 609) and in the United Kingdom and North America through the African Books Collective (https://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/textures).

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