RÉMY NGAMIJE is a Rwandan-born Namibian author, editor, publisher, photographer, literary educator, and entrepreneur. His debut novel, The Eternal Audience of One, was first published in South Africa by Blackbird Books. In 2022, it was honored with a special mention at the inaugural Grand Prix Panafricain De Littérature and won the inaugural African Literary Award from the Museum of the African Diaspora. He won the Africa Regional Prize of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and was short-listed for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing in 2021 and 2020. He was long-listed and short-listed for the 2020 and 2021 Afritondo Short Story Prizes respectively. In 2019, he was short-listed for Best Original Fiction by Stack Magazines. Rémy is the founder and chairperson of Doek, an independent arts organization in Namibia supporting the literary arts, and the editor in chief of Doek! Literary Magazine, Namibia's first and only literary magazine. He is also the founder and director of several literary initiatives such as the Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards, the Doek Literary Festival, and the Doek Anthology. He has served as a judge of the Kalemba, Kendeka, Commonwealth, and Plaza short story prizes. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in The Johannesburg Review of Books, American Chordata, Lolwe, Lit Hub, Granta, One Story, Prairie Schooner, and many other places. More of his writing can be read on his website: remythequill.com.
- Contributors' Notes, The Best American Essays 2024.
No comments:
Post a Comment