“We had a lot of consultations with the advisory boards and struggled with the decision but the overriding focus of the award was safety.” NLNG C0VID19 Coronavirus
Prof. Ayo Banjo receiving 2018 entries for The Nigerian Prize for Literature from Mr. Tony Okonedo
The prize rotates among four literary genres — prose fiction, poetry, drama and children’s literature. This year, the competition was for Prose Fiction. Guidelines for entries include, 12 copies of the entry and, if available, an e-copy, with evidence of Nigerian citizenship , submitted either by author or publisher, in accordance with the genres in competition. No book published before January 2016 would be accepted, while an author was expected to submit only one published work. Mere manuscripts were not considered.
According to Mrs. Eyono Fatayi-Williams, General Manager, External Relations and Sustainable Development, NLNG, “the decision to postpone the three Prizes this year was reached after assessing the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on the Prizes’ cycles.” She concluded, “the competition, alongside entries submitted for all the prizes this year, will now be carried over to 2021. The Calls for Entries for the three prizes were published in February 2020 with prior deadlines set for March 31, 2020 and April 30, 2020 for the literature and literary criticism prizes, and the science prize respectively.”
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