 |
| Project initiator and author, Abigail Anaba |
The Speech House International has officially announced 52
nominees in 13 categories for the first Grill and Read Annual Readers’ Awards
tagged GaRARA 2017.
The categories are: Book of the Year, Author of the Year;
Discovery of the Year; Book Review Site of the Year; Reader’s Event of the
Year; Book Club of the Year; Celebrity-Reader Motivator of the Year; Reader’s
Show of the Year (Radio or TV); Book Cover of the Year; Publisher of the Year;
Reader-Motivator of the Year, Reader’s Person of the Year; and Library of the Year.
Titles on the shortlist include: Carnivorous City (Toni Kan); A Tiny Place
Called Happiness (Bura-Bari Nwilo); After They Left (Edify Yakusak); Avenger of Blood (Franklin Fynecountry);
Route 234 (travel anthology); and The Crazy Nigerian (Tonwapiri Anthony).
During the call for nominations in January, organisers said
the awards were to recognise the literary community to the socio-economic
development of the Nigeria, adding that: “this first-of-its-kind award ceremony
shall beam the spotlight on readers and reading for pleasure and on the
strength of readers in society and how this strength can be harnessed for
change.”
“We received about 200 nominations from the public at the
end of the nominations deadline in April, all of which were sent to our nominations
panel,” says project initiator and author Abigail Anaba in a video announcement
on July 28. “Our college of judges spread across a broad spectrum of Nigerians
is right about now working assiduously to pick the winners in each category.”
The awards ceremony will hold in Lagos on Saturday 28 October.
0 comments:
Post a Comment