Readers Choose Their Favourite Books For GaRARA 2017
The Speech House International have officially
announced 52 nominees in 13 categories for the first Grill and Read Annual Readers’
Awards (tagged GaRARA 2017).
The categories are: Book
of the Year, Author of the Year; Discovery of the Year; Book Review Site of the
Year; Reader's Event of the Year; Book Club of the Year; Celebrity-Reader
Motivator of the Year; Reader's Show of the Year (Radio or TV); Book Cover of
the Year; Publisher of the Year; Reader-Motivator of the Year, Reader's Person
of the Year; and Library of the Year.
A statement from Pelu Awofeso listed the titles on the
shortlist to include: Carnivorous City
(Toni Kan); A Tiny Place Called Happiness (Bura-Bari Nwilo); After They Left
(Edify Yakusak); Avenger of Blood
(Franklin Fynecountry); Route 234 (travel anthology); and The Crazy Nigerian
(Tonwapiri Anthony).
During the call for
nominations in January, organisers said the awards were to recognise the
literary community to the socio-economic development of the Nigeria, adding
that: “this first-of-its-kind award ceremony shall beam the spotlight on
readers and reading for pleasure and on the strength of readers in
society and how this strength can be harnessed for change.”
“We received about 200
nominations from the public at the end of the nominations deadline in April,
all of which were sent to our nominations panel,” says project initiator and
author Abigail Anaba in a video announcement on July 28. “Our college of judges
spread across a broad spectrum of Nigerians is right about now working
assiduously to pick the winners in each category.”
The awards ceremony will hold in Lagos on Saturday 28
October. The public may follow the
subsequent activities leading up to the awards online (grillandread.com and
@garara2017).
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