Patrick Murtha
Reader
With today’s announcements, this year’s Nobel, Booker, International Booker, and Prix Goncourt have all gone to African writers, so the continent’s literature is having a moment! I see this as a positive, heartening occurrence because it means, among other things, that African writers in general should get more of a deserved shot in the international marketplace of literary attention; and it shows the tremendous diversity of “African writing”, which is not confined by race, religion, gender, but like the literature of every other continent, embraces all.