Three African Authors Make the Longlist for the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize
Three writers of African descent have made the 2026 longlist for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards for writers aged 39 and under, worth £20,000. Nigerian writer Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, British-Ghanaian writer Derek Owusu, and British-South African poet Isabelle Baafi, who is of Jamaican and South African […]
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Three writers of African descent have made the 2026 longlist for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards for writers aged 39 and under, worth £20,000. Nigerian writer Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, British-Ghanaian writer Derek Owusu, and British-South African poet Isabelle Baafi, who is of Jamaican and South African […]
