One such event, in the past, has been the Women’s Prize talks, interviews with the shortlisted authors, but in 2020 we were all able to participate, and I even had a question answered! The National Theatre (like other theatres across the globe) had been doing this for years of course with its NT Live and Encore programmes where performances are streamed into regional cinemas, but everyone suddenly got in on the act and it was great! I do live near a major city (Manchester, England), but still most events in the publishing world take place in London. This was quite liberating for those of us living outside major cities lots of cultural outlets, whose activities had been shut down by the pandemic, were forced to seek new sources of income and found them by broadcasting live-streamed Zoom events which anyone anywhere could join. Most of us were under severe lockdown restrictions at that time, of course, and spending much of our social and cultural lives on video platforms. This book first crossed my radar when it was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize in 2020.
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Bâ, whose health had been declining for years, died later that year. In 1981 the book won the first ever Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, and it went on to become one of the first novels by an African woman to gain international attention. Written in French, it was published to immediate literary acclaim. So Long a Letter (1979) was her first novel. She had nine children, whom she raised more or less single-handedly after divorcing her husband. In the years leading up to and following Senegalese independence, she wrote essays against French assimilationist policies, joined a number of women’s rights advocacy groups, and penned newspaper articles on education, genital mutilation, and the unequal treatment of women in Senegalese society. Bâ was an outspoken, politically active feminist. Upon graduating she became a schoolteacher. Against their wishes she attended college, where she studied law. Her mother died when Bâ was young, and so she was raised mostly by her grandparents. Her father served as Minister of Health under the French colonial regime and went on to become one of the first Ministers of State after Senegalese independence. She grew up Muslim, attending Koranic school from a young age, and her family was relatively wealthy. Mariama Bâ was born in 1929 in Dakar, Senegal, then part of French West Africa. The Polity is the name for the science fiction universe created by British author Neal Asher, and the Earth-based United Nations in space, The Polity. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so. Before making a single edit, Tropedia EXPECTS our site policy and manual of style to be followed. Or rather, it's not about a great menacing evil, or better still to say that it's more about the nonviolent side effects of a great evil, a colorful spinoff of a violent interventionist American foreign policy. It's not a bad novel, doesn't invite the word "bungled," and it's not, despite the forces that have developed and honed these various characters, about a great evil. Maybe it was as artlessly manipulated as a CIA-sponsored foreign election? No, see, that kind of awareness needs to stay on the outskirts. I keep wanting to go with cooking-it had good ingredients, but didn't bake quite long enough mixed nicely but the souffle fell something along those lines-but that doesn't seem appropriate for a story about spycraft and secret lives and subterfuge. Perhaps, dear reader, you can help me to find the right metaphorical space here. |