CORA Book Party For Nigeria literature Prize shortlist Poets

THE COMMITTEE FOR RELEVANT ART, CORA,

PRESS RELEASE

The Book Party in honour of the recently announced 9 shortlisted writers for the Nigeria Literature Prize holds on SUNDAY September 20 at the Goethe Institut, 10 Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island, Lagos; at 2pm.

The Book Party heralds the Committee For Relevant Art's two month-long "Book Season", which is designed as a foretaste to the Lagos Book and Art Festival, LABAF, in November.

The season involves a series of events that would generate a buzz and raise public awareness for the festival.
The first in the series of events is a BOOK PARTY, designed to host all the Nine nominees on the shortlist list of the 2009 Nigeria Literature Prize as endowed by the NLNG.

CORA intends to play host to the nine Poets in the short-list for the Award, which ceremony comes up in October.

The choice of a Book Party at this point is to generate public interest in an otherwise purely intellectual event, while drawing attention to the nominated works, which, by merely making of the Short-list, have registered their significance in the emerging body of literature of Nigeria.

The event, a garden- lagoon-front affair, will feature short reviews of each work, interspersed with performances, readings, photo-ops and writer-audience interactions.

The interactive sessions, we envisage, will allow the public to engage the writers at several levels – from the elevated, such as gaining a peep into motive and motivations of the poets, to the mundane, such as finding out any plans for the prize money

Further enquiries can be referred to KAFAYAT QUADRI, 07029025583.
stampedecorang@gmail.com
C/O CORA HOUSE,
PLOT 95 BODE THOMAS STREET, SURULERE, LAGOS,

Or Toyin Akinosho (08057622415); Jahman Anikulapo (08022016495); and Deji Toye (08023624647)