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Major Zimbabwean
author, Tsitsi Dangarembga will be reading alongside writers Madeleine
Thien, Unoma Azuah and Helon Habila at the sixth edition of the popular
BookJam @ Silverbird, which will hold in Lagos on July 24.

Dangarembga, a
novelist, filmmaker and activist published ‘Nervous Conditions’ as her
debut novel in 1988. The book won the Commonwealth Writers Prize
(African Region) in 1989; and was listed as one of the Best 100 African
book. Almost twenty years later, in 2006, she published ‘The Book of
Not’, a sequel to Nervous Conditions, which traces the life of her
fictional character, Nyasha, as a much older woman.

Madeleine Thien,
winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, is the author of ‘Simple
Recipes’ and ‘Certainty’. Unoma Azuah, author of ‘Sky-high Flames’, won
the Flora Nwapa/Association of Nigerian Authors award and teaches
English in Tennessee. The quartet of writers is completed by Helon
Habila won the Caine Prize for African Writing (2001), for his short
story, ‘Love Poems’. He later published his first novel, ‘Waiting for
an Angel’ to great acclaim; then followed up with his second novel,
‘Measuring Time’, about a set of twins, Mamo and Lemano, who go on to
live very different lives through Africa’s many conflicts. Habila new
novel, about the Niger Delta, ‘Oil on Water’, is set for release in
August 2010.

The BookJam, which holds monthly, incorporates book readings by
featured authors, as well as discussions, musical performances, poetry
and a raffle draw for participants who purchase books. The next edition
holds at the Lifestyle Store, Silverbird Galleria, Victoria Island,
Lagos – starting at 3pm on Saturday, July 24.