Winners of the inaugural Penguin Prize for African Writing, which highlight the diverse writing talent on the African continent and make new African fiction and nonfiction available to a wider readership, are You’re Not a Country, Africa! by Pius Adesanmi (nonfiction) and Patchwork by Ellen Banda-Aaku (fiction).
"We were overwhelmed by the number of entries for these two awards and, after hearing from the judges and readers who read the submissions, encouraged by the writing talentcoming out of our continent. Congratulations to the two worthy winners," said Alison Lowry, CEO, Penguin Books South Africa.