Please feel free to contact
Advisory Board members
or the Award Administrator:
GEORGE LANG
Dean, Faculty of Arts
University of Ottawa
Pavillon Simard, pièce 113
60, rue Université
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5
Email: doyenarts@uottawa.ca
The Award
- African Literature Association
At its 1993 meeting in Guadeloupe, the Executive of the African Literature Association resolved that the Award be conferred regularly at the annual meetings of the ALA. - History of the Fonlon-Nichols Award
- The Advisory Board
- Contact
Laureates
- 2005: Dennis Brutus
- 2004: Pius Ngandu Nkashama
- 2003: Emmanuel Dongala
- 2002: Jack Mapanje
- 2001: Nuruddin Farah
- 2000: Wole Soyinka
- 1999: Abdellatif Laäbi
- 1998: Niyi Osundare
- 1997: Assia Djebar
- 1996: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- 1995: Sony Labou Tansi
- 1994: Ken Saro-Wiwa
- 1993: Werewere Liking
- 1992: Mongo Beti & René Philombe
Acceptance Speeches
Books by Award Winners
- Abdellatif Laâbi: Le fond de la jarre: Roman
Niyi Osundare: Pages from the Book of the Sun: New and Selected Poems
- René Philombe: Bedi-ngula, L'ancien Maquisard
