Jamil Jan Kochai’s The Haunting of Hajji Hotak has won the 2023 Aspen Prize.

Last night, the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize was awarded to Jamil Jan Kochai for his collection, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, following a suite of Afghani characters between modern-day Afghanistan and contemporary America as they grapple with guilt and displacement, and filter their parents’ experiences of war. The collection was previously […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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African fiction prize chooses longlist

The Kwani? Manuscript Project, a new one-off literary prize for unpublished fiction from African... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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