The Nobel Prize in Literature and Africa 2011
The Nordic Africa Institute library staff has compiled this web dossier to coincide with the announcement of 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Algerian writer Assia Djebar is a top candidate for the prize this year. But also the Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe of Nigeria, as well as Nuruddin Farah of Somalia are recognized among the candidates.
Assia Djebar
Web links and selected on line articles
- Le Blog d’Assia Djebar: http://assiadjebar.canalblog.com/
- Google Books: http://books.google.co.uk/
- Assia Djebar's Algerian Quartet: A Study in Fragmented Autobiography by Mildred Mortimer in Research in African Literatures, Vol. 28, No. 2, Autobiography and African Literature (Summer, 1997), pp. 102-11.
- 'Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement d’Assia Djebar : une rencontre entre la peinture et l’écriture' by Farah Aïcha Gharbi in Réécrire au féminin : pratiques, modalités, enjeux, Volume 40, numéro 1, 2004, p. 63-80. (In French)
- 'Écriture de l’oralité et contre-discours féminin dans Loin de Médine d’Assia Djebar' by Fatima Zohra Lalaoui in Semen, 18, De la culture orale à la production écrite : Littératures africaines, 2004. (In French)
Nuruddin Farah
Web links and selected on line articles
- Nuruddin Farah biography and faculty page at European Graduate School with bibliography, lectures, videos quotes, http://www.egs.edu/faculty/nuruddin-farah/biography/.
- Faculty page at University of Minnesota with oilnks to publications where Nuruddin Farah holds the Winton Chair in Liberal Arts, http://english.umn.edu/faculty/profile.php?UID=nfarahha.
- Google Books, http://www.google.co.uk/.
- Interviews Google videos, http://www.google.co.uk/.
- Nuruddin Farah interviewed at the Göteborg Book Fair 2010, http://afrikaharordet-2010.cmm.creo.se/.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Web links and selected on line articles
- Official web site: http://www.ngugiwathiongo.com/
- Google Books: http://www.google.co.uk/
- Interviews Google videos: http://www.google.co.uk/
- 'Celebrating Ngugi wa Thiongo'o at 70' by Emilia Illeva in African Writing online, Dec/Jan 2008.
- 'Resistance to linguistic feudalism and Darwinism : conditions for creating a reading culture in Africa' by Ngugi wa Thiong'o published in Pambazuka News online, 2009-10-01, Issue 450.
- Interview with the author at the Göteborg Book Fair 2010, http://afrikaharordet-2010.cmm.creo.se/.
Chinua Achebe
Web links and selected on line articles
- Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe
- Chinua Achebe: an overview: http://www.postcolonialweb.org/achebe/achebeov.html
- Google Books: http://books.google.co.uk
- A selective list of articles on Chinua Achebe, by recognized scholars, as well as articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources provided by LiteraryHistory.com.
Literature in the library
The Nordic Africa Institute library has a special collection of contemporary African fiction. The collection consists of approximately 3.000 titles that are mainly in English, French, Portuguese and Swedish. All books can be ordered on interlibrary loans within the Nordic countries.
Use the quick links below to locate titles dealing with topics of interest in the library catalogue, AfricaLit. The lists consist of literature - books and articles - in the form of fiction, non-fiction/factual information and official publications, as well as of other material.
- Find titles on and by Assia Djebar in the library collection
- Find titles on and by Nuruddin Farah in the library collection
- Find titles on and by Ngugi wa Thiong'o in the library collection
- Find titles on and by Chinua Achebe in the library collection
- Find titles on 'literature' in Africa in the library collection
- Find titles on 'fiction' from Africa in the library collection
See our web page on fiction in the Nordic Africa Institute library,
Former Laureates from Africa
1986 Wole Soyinka, Nigeria
Find titles on and by Wole Soyinka in the library collection.
Read about the author on the official site of the Nobel Price in Literture, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1986/index.html.
1988 Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
Find titles on and by Naguib Mahfouz in the library collection.
Read about the author on the official site of the Nobel Price in Literture, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1988/index.html.
1991 Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
Find titles on and by Nadine Gordimer in the library collection.
Read about the author on the official site of the Nobel Price in Literture, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1991/index.html.
Interview with Nadine Gordimer at the Göteborg Book Fair 2010, http://afrikaharordet-2010.cmm.creo.se/fredag/nadine_gordimer.
2003 J. M. Coetzee, South Africa
Find titles on and by J. M. Coetzee in the library collection.
Read about the author on the official site of the Nobel Price in Literture, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2003/.
More web links
This is a selection of websites dealing with 'Literature in Africa'. Many more items are available online on websites and in discussion forums. More links related to this topic are found in the link collection A Guide to Africa on the Internet.
African Literature on the Internet
African literature and writers on the internet, from African Studies Internet Resources, Columbia University African Collection, Stanford Libraries.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/aflit.html
African Writing Online
Online version of a print journal about contemporary African writing published in Britain.
LITAF - Littérature africaine francophone
A bibliographical database on francophone literature from Africa south of Sahara. A project affiliated with Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire de Bordeaux, France.
Africa has the floor - a photo exhibition
Photographs of 20 of the African writers who visited the Göteborg Book Fair 2010 and that represent the new generation of African writers. Photograps by the Swedish-Mozambican photographer Sérgio Santimano and the writers’ presentations by Anita Theorell, http://afrikaharordet-eng.cmm.creo.se/.
The Nobel Prize in Literature
Read more about the Nobel Prize in Literature on Nobelprize.org that is the official web site of the Nobel Foundation.
African Writers Serie On line
The online edition of African Writers Series is available via the Nordic Africa Institute library and Uppsala University Campus. AWS offers modern African literature incl. almost 200 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose.