The 15th CORA-Nigeria Prize for Literature Book Party for writers longlisted for the 2024 edition of the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature (NLP), endowed and promoted by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG holds as follows:
Date: Sunday August 17, 2024
Venue: Shell Hall, MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos
Time: 1pm(prompt).
NB: The event will accommodate virtual guests via Zoom; and will be broadcast live on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.
The genre in focus is Children’s Literature. The 11-longlist drawn from ???? entries submitted for the 2024 edition of the prize are below — NOT in alphabetical order.
- A Father’s Pride,by Ndidi Chiazor-Enenmor
- The Road Does Not End,by Familoni Oluranti Olubunmi
- Mighty Mite and Golden Jewel,by Henry Akubuiro·              Â
- Village Boy, by Anietie Usen
- Wish Maker,by Uchechuckwu Peter Umezurike
- Risi Recycle – The DustBin Girl, byTemiloluwa Adeshina
- The Third side of a Coin,by Hyginus Ekwuazi
- The Children at the IDP Camp,by Olatunbosun Taofeek
- Grandma and the Moon’s Hidden Secret,Jumoke Verissimo
- The Magic Jalabiya,by Ayo Oyeku
- Bode’s Birthday Party,– Akanni Festus Olaniyi
The party, a literary feast of ideas and life, celebrates the authors and their works for emerging as some of the very best in the country. It promises to be an afternoon of literary feasting, featuring performances, wining and dining.
About the NPL:
The Nigeria Prize for Literature was inaugurated in 2004 and sponsored by Nigerian LNG Limited with the prize money was later raised to $50,000 and now, it is a $100,000 prize – the biggest of its kind in Africa.
About the Book Party:
The CORA-Nigeria Prize for Literature Book Party – a special iteration of the CORA Book Party launched in 1996 — was initiated after a review of the first five years of the esteemed Prize project. The idea is to create a platform through which the public gets to engage with the works considered the best of the usually, over 200 entries per edition of the NPL.
About CORA:
CORA is a group consisting of artistes, art enthusiasts, art promoters and art writers committed to the flowering of all the contemporary arts of the Nigerian people. It has organised, every year since 1999, the Lagos Book & Art Festival, (LABAF), critically described as ‘the biggest Culture picnic on the African continent.’ The 25th edition holds November 13-19 with theme: The Reset: History On A Darkling Plain
