Amazon Studios has won the auction for the screen rights to Akwaeke Emezi‘s forthcoming novel, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, Deadline reports. The novel is set to be published in 2022 by the Simon & Schuster imprint, Atria. “The book sold in a bidding battle, in the vicinity of high six…
Author of Freshwater, PET, and Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi, has announced their new book, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir. “My official nonfiction debut, DEAR SENTHURAN: A BLACK SPIRIT MEMOIR, is coming out on June 8,” they wrote on Twitter recently. “Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Emezi traces the…
Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the “Lammys”, is a yearly award given by the Lambda Literary Foundation (based in the United States) to published works which celebrate or explore sexuality, gender, social justice in literature and the arts. Now in its 31st edition, the Lambda award honours outstanding work in various categories; from Lesbian…
Freshwater is heading to the small screen. Variety is reporting that FX is currently developing a series that is based on the critically acclaimed debut novel of Akwaeke Emezi. According to the site, the series will focus on Ada, a Nigerian student in her final year of college who finds out that she has three…
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