9mobile Prize for Literature location Africa
2013
From a longlist of nine titles, the shortlist was announced on 23 January 2014. The winner was announced on 23 February 2014, and the award ceremony took place on Sunday, 2 March, at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos.
Yewande Omotoso (South Africa), Bom Boy (Modjaji Books, South Africa)
Karen Jennings (South Africa), Finding Soutbek (Holland Park Press, UK)
 NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), We Need New Names (Little, Brown and Company/Chatto & Windus, UK)The judges in 2013 were:
Zakes Mda, novelist and playwright
Sarah Ladipo Manyika, writer, academic
Pumla Dineo Gqola, writer, academic
Billy Kahora, writer, editor of Kwani?2014
The longlist was announced in November 2014 and the shortlist in December 2014. The winner was announced on Sunday, 15 March 2015, at the Intercontinental Hotel Lagos, Nigeria.
Nadia Davids (South Africa), An Imperfect Blessing (Random House Struik-Umuzi, South Africa)
Chinelo Okparanta (Nigeria), Happiness, Like Water (Granta Books, UK)
 Songeziwe Mahlangu (South Africa), Penumbra (Kwela Books, imprint of NB Publishers, South Africa)The 2014 judges were:
Sarah Ladipo Manyika (chair)
Alain Mabanckou
Jamal Mahjoub
Tsitsi Dangarembga
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