Bom Boy short listed for Pan-African Prize

The Nigerian branch of UAE telecommunications company Etisalat has announced the 2013 shortlist for the Etisalat Prize for Literature and Bom Boy, written by Yewande Omotoso and published by Modjaji Publishers is on it.

This is the award’s first year, and is the first Pan-African literary prize created to recognize and reward debut fiction writers in Africa. The winner will be presented with a check for £15,000, an engraved Montblanc Meisterstuck and will attend The Etisalat Fellowship at the University of East Anglia, mentored by Professor Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland.

The shortlisted novels are:

Bom Boy by Yewande Omotoso (Modjaji Publishers)
Finding Soutbek by Karen Jennings (Holland Park Press)
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (Little, Brown and Company/Chatto & Windus UK)