Noma Award for Publishing in Africa
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title:
Noma Award for Publishing in Africa
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The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, which ran from 1980 to 2009, was an annual $10,000 prize for outstanding African writers and scholars who published in Africa. Within four years of its establishment, the prize "had become the major book award in Africa". It was one of the series of Noma Prizes. The prize was established in 1979 by Shoichi Noma, president of Kodansha Ltd, the largest publishing house in Japan, to encourage the publication of works by African authors. The award was annual
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Prize awarded to African writers and scholars
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noma_Award_for_Publishing_in_Africa
date created:
2005-08-01T13:35:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T04:52:01Z
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