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(T.L.) Tendai Huchu Added as Special Guest at Glasgow 2024

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Glasgow 2024 today announced that Zimbabwean author (T.L.) Tendai Huchu will be appearing as a Special Guest at the 2024 Worldcon.
 
T.L. Huchu’s genre and mainstream fiction has been widely published and awarded since his first novel The Hairdresser of Harare (2010).  A long-time resident of Edinburgh, his main project at present is the Edinburgh Nights series, set in a dystopian futuristic fantasy version of the city. The first three books (The Library of the Dead, Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments, and The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle) are in print now, with book four, The Legacy of Arniston Hall, due in October 2024.

He is the winner of a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2023), an Alex Award (2022), the Children’s Africana Book Award (2021), the Nommo Award for African SFF (2022, 2017), and has been shortlisted for the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (2019) and the Caine Prize (2014).
 
Looking forward to next year’s appearance, Tendai said “I think at its heart Glasgow 2024 is about meeting people, sharing ideas and nerding out. I very much look forward to meeting new folks and some that I already know and chatting. A lot comes out of these encounters. Getting introduced to different art and concepts you otherwise might never have encountered. It’s the people that make Glasgow, after all.”

Chair Esther MacCallum-Stewart said, “We’re delighted to announce Tendai as our first Special Guest for Glasgow 2024, a Worldcon for Our Futures. I’ve been absolutely gripped by Tendai’s Edinburgh Nights series, and he’s a fantastic author whose imaginative portrayals of Scotland and beyond demonstrate the massive talent that we have to offer. I can’t wait to see him in August next year!”
 
Find him @TendaiHuchu on Twitter (X) and Instagram.

[Based on a press release.]

2022 Nommo Awards

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The 2022 winners of the African Speculative Fiction Society’s Nommo Awards were announced today in a ceremony held during Chicon 8. The Awards were hosted by Sheree Renée Thomas and presented by previous winners Chikodili Emelumadu, Wole Talabi and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki.

The African Speculative Fiction Society, composed of professional and semiprofessional African writers, editors, publishers, graphic artists and film makers, was founded in 2016. Members of the African Speculative Fiction Society nominate the short list and then vote for the winners in each category. 

The host for the Awards, Sheree Renée Thomas said of African speculative writing, “What makes African speculative writing distinctive is not just a matter of geography for in the African novel, the continent and her nations are not merely a setting to serve as an accessory to the storytelling but the people, their communities and their cultures are an essential foundation from which the writing springs.”

All of these works are speculative fiction, published between January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021, and are by Africans as defined by the ASFS and Nommo Awards Guidelines. This is the sixth year that the Nommo Awards have been given, prize money sponsored by Tom Ilube CBS.  This is the first year that a panel of readers have contributed to the selection.

The Nommos were presented for the first time in 2017. The awards are named for twins from Dogon cosmology who take a variety of forms, including appearing on land as fish, walking on their tails.

T. L. Huchu

NOVEL

  • The Library Of The Dead by T. L. Huchu (Tor Books 2021)

NOVELLA

  • Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor/Forge, Tordotcom, 2021)

SHORT STORY

GRAPHIC NOVEL

  • Iyanu: Child Of Wonder Vol 2 — Roye Okupe, Godwin Akpan (YouNeek Studios/Dark Horse Comic)