Lifetime Achievement Recognition – Murambi: Book of Bones

The 2022 Neustadt Lit Fest: In person or via Zoom - https://www.neustadtprize.org/neustadt-lit-fest/

Senegalese writer Boubacar Boris Diop will headline the 2022 Neustadt Lit Fest (October 24–26) as the 27th laureate of the renowned Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Diop (b. 1946, Dakar) is the author of many novels, plays and essays. Toni Morrison called his novel Murambi: The Book of Bones “a miracle,” and the Zimbabwe International Book Fair listed it as one of the 100 best African books of the 20th century.