AFRICA39: NEW WRITING FROM AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA

Book ID/图书代码： 02000014B68271

English Summary/英文概要： Discover the best new writing from Africa, by 39 writers under 40 – with an introduction by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka

Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and Doris Lessing, to more recent talents like Nuruddin Farah, Ben Okri, Aminatta Forna and Brian Chikwava.

Following the successful launch of Bogotá39, which identified many of the most interesting upcoming Latin American talents, including Daniel Alarcon, Junot Diaz (Pulitzer Prize), Santiago Roncagliolo (Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and Juan Gabriel Vásquez (short-listed for the IFFP), and Beirut39 which published Randa Jarrar, Rabee Jaber, Joumama Haddad, Abdellah Taia and Samar Yezbek, Africa39 will bring to worldwide attention the best work from Africa and its diasporas. Africa39 is a Hay Festival and Rainbow Book Club project which aims to select and celebrate 39 of the best young African writers from south of the Sahara. It will be launched at the PH Book Festival in UNESCO’s World Book Capital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in October 2014.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 挖掘来自非洲的新写作，来自39名40岁以下的新人作家---由诺贝尔文学奖的非洲获奖作家沃莱•索因卡作序，《非洲》将为我们带来20世纪非洲文坛上的一些绝佳新秀及作品，从奇努阿•阿切贝、阿依•克伟•阿尔马赫、恩古吉•瓦•提安哥、以及诺贝尔桂冠获得者沃莱•索因卡，到纳丁•戈迪默、J•M•库切、多丽丝•莱辛，甚至是更近期的天才作家努鲁丁•法拉赫、本•奥克利、阿米娜塔•福尔那以及布莱恩•齐克瓦瓦。

在《波哥大39》中，作者列举了许多有趣的拉美文学新秀，并收获巨大成功，其中包括丹尼尔•阿拉尔康、朱诺特•戴尔兹（普利策奖获得者）、圣地亚哥•荣卡格里罗（独立外国文学小说奖获得者）以及朱安•卡布里埃尔•瓦斯奎斯（IFFP提名）；作者还著有《布鲁特39》，其中囊括了兰达•杰瑞尔，拉比•佳博、茱玛马•哈达德、阿布戴拉•泰尔及沙马•耶兹别克等；《非洲39》将让世界看到来自非洲大陆的优秀作品极其移民社群.《非洲39》是一部海伊文学节及彩虹读书俱乐部项目作品，其关注于选取并庆贺39名非洲南部撒哈拉最佳青年作家的诞生。本书将于2014年8月，尼日利亚哈考特港的联合国教科文组织世界图书展 PH图书文学节上与读者们们首次见面。(DC)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 艾拉•瓦卡塔玛•阿尔弗雷是一名自由编辑和评论家，曾担任Granta 杂志副总编。

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is a freelance editor and critic, and was former deputy editor of Granta magazine.

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