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To address the legacies of slavery and colonialism, read Maryse Condé and Frantz Fanon now. Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 2016). Other past winners include Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (1951), Ivo Andric (1961), Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (1903), José Echegaray (1904), Odysseus Elytis (1979), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1908), Paul Heyse (1910), Selma Lagerlöf (1909), Halldór Laxness (1955), Henrik Pontoppidan (1917), and Henrik Sienkiewicz (1905). Not recipients that you’d expect.

Her work explored the brutal legacies of slavery and colonialism and brought her the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature, an alternative to the Nobel.

The writer died on April 2 at age 90.

Author of novels drawing on African and Caribbean history enjoyed international acclaim, including the New Academy prize, which stood in for the Nobel in 2018<br>

...Segu by Maryse Conde Narrative Landscape Press, Lagos: 2020, 497pp May 09, (THEWILL) –In one of his lectures at Freedom Park Lagos sometime in 2013 NLNG poet laureate Tade Ipadeola told his listeners that right from the very beginning, Africa has always given to the rest of the world. From the first contact with either