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NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®.Celebrates the Best of Nollywood in Colour and Glamour

So much has been written and published on Nollywood, the phenomenal Nigerian film industry producing thousands of home videos telling stories of Nigerians from the past to the present and has caught the attention of the rest of the world to say WOW! African magic?

Did you know that Zambian mothers said that their children now talk with accents copied from Nollywood movies?
Did you know that when the President of Sierra Leone asked Genevieve Nnaji to join him on the campaign trail he attracted record crowds at rallies, because of her?
Yes, Nollywood is our African magic that has hooked the world.
The maiden edition of NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® SERIES is a celebration of the best of Nollywood and one of the best publications on the leading actors, actresses, filmmakers and distributors who contributed to make it one of the largest film industries in the world. The publication in full colour is filled with vital information that makes it a must read and a collector's item.
It is distributed in both digital and print versions.
You can get it in Amazon's Kindle, in paperback and hardcover with discounts on Lulu and as much as 30% discount on bulk orders from the Nigerian distributors, International Digital Post Network Limited..

“Whenever I travel abroad, many of my colleagues, Presidents of other countries, ask me about Nollywood. Nollywood is our shining light. Africans are very proud of Nollywood. That is why we are here today to celebrate the success story of this national, continental and global brand.”
~ President Goodluck Jonathan.

Read the complete special commendations of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for his unprecedented financial and morale boosting support for Nollywood with the N3 billion grant for Project ACT-Nollywood and the $200 million Entertainment Intervention Fund in NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®.

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There are also comprehensive features on Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards (AMVCA), Nollywood and the Global Film Market, Silverbird Cinemas, The Coming of IMAX To Nigeria and so much more in 102 pages in full colour. And the cover celebrates the "Man of the Moment in Nollywood", Kenneth Gyang, winner of the Best Film Award and Best Nigerian Film Award at the 2013 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) for his first feature “Confusion Na Wa”, that also won four more awards for Best Screenplay, Movie with Best Production Design, Director of the Year and Movie of the Year at the recent 2013 Best of Nollywood (BON) Awards. The cover is in the beautiful symbolic green and white colours of Nigeria, the home of Nollywood and green also means abundance of fertile land, rich harvest and success.

Nollywood has done what neither Americans Hollywood nor Indians Bollywood has done! Stopped battles at the war fronts!

Did you know that Ivorian rebels in the bush stopped fighting when a shipment of Nollywood DVDs arrived from Lagos?

 NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® is the best publication on the best of nollywood in colour and glamour with all the glitz and razzmatazz of the news makers in 2013!

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~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima

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Who Will Win the 2013 Nigeria Prize for Literature?

Prof. Femi Osofisan and Prof. Remi Raji are the foremost contenders.



Who Will Win the 2013 Nigeria Prize for Literature? 





It is really difficult for anyone to predict who will win the Nigeria Prize for Literature this year, even though only a couple of the writers who made the final shortlist are among the most accomplished poets in Nigeria. I can pick out the geniuses in poetry among them. When you have Prof. Femi Osofisan , aka Okinba Launko and Prof. Remi Raji in the same contest for the most coveted and richest literary prize in Africa, then it is not an easy task for the judges. The other 9 authors on the shortlist must also be good to have made the final list of 11 from the 201 entries, but only few of them have proved to be seasoned poets over the years. Personally, I don’t believe in prose writers becoming poets overnight so that they can compete for the poetry category of the Nigeria Prize for Literature which rotates annually among the four major genres of Prose Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Children's literature, especially when the cash prize is a whopping US$100, 000! That is enough to make anyone transform into Wole Soyinka overnight! 

On August 12th 2013, the Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature approved the following shortlist of 11 out of the 201 books submitted for the 2013 edition of the prize. 

• Letter Home and Biafran Nights by Akeh Afam
• Symphony of Becoming by Eke Iquo
• Birthcry by Nwakanma Obi
• Wild Letters by Ogochukwu Promise
• Globetrotter and Hitler’s Children by Ede Amatoritsero
• Marsh Boy and Other Poems by Egbewo G’ebinyo
• Length of Eyes by Gomba Obari
• The Sahara Testaments by Ipadeola Tade
• Seven Stations up the Stairwell by Launko Kinba (pen name for Femi Osofisan)
• Through the Window of a Sandcastle by Nnadi Amu
• Sea of My Mind by Raji Remi

The list was arrived at after three months of intensive scrutiny by the panel of judges for this year’s prize, led by Professor Romanus Egudu, a renowned poet, literary critic and former President, Association of Nigerian Authors. He is of the Department of English at Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu. Other members of the panel are Prof. Omolara Ogundipe of Department of English, University of Port-Harcourt, Rivers State and Dr. Andrew Abah of Department of English, Benue State University, Makurdi, Benue State.

The Advisory Board led by its chairman Professor Emeritus Ayo Banjo announced that the final shortlist will be released soon. Other members of the Advisory Board are Professor Ben Elugbe, former President, Nigerian Academy of Letters and Dr. Jerry Agada, former President of the Association of Nigerian Authors and one time Minister of State for Education



The Nigeria Prize for Literature has since 2004 rewarded eminent writers such as Gabriel Okara (co-winner, 2004, poetry), Professor Ezenwa Ohaeto (co-winner, 2004, poetry); Ahmed Yerima (2005, drama) for his classic, Hard Ground; Mabel Segun (co-winner, 2007, children’s literature) for her collection of short plays Reader’s Theatre; Professor Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (co-winner, 2007, children’s literature) with her book, My Cousin Sammy; Kaine Agary (2008, prose); Esiaba Irobi (2010, drama) who clinched the prize posthumously with his book Cemetery Road; Adeleke Adeyemi (2011, children’s literature) with his book The Missing Clock; and Chika Unigwe (2012 – prose), with her novel, On Black Sister’s Street.

The Nigeria Prize for Literature rotates yearly amongst four literary genres: prose fiction, poetry, drama and children’s literature. The 2013 prize is for poetry and comes with a cash prize of $100, 000. Next year is drama.

Nigeria LNG Limited remains committed to responsible corporate citizenship and The Nigeria Prize for Literature is one of its numerous contributions towards building a better Nigeria.













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No More Commonwealth Book Prize

There will no longer be any Commonwealth Book Prize according the decision of the Commonwealth Writers Prize body.

- See more at: http://www.nigeriansreport.com/2013/08/no-more-commonwealth-book-prize.html#sthash.A2rnsiNC.dpuf


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Will Children Embrace EBooks?

1 Aug 2013 19:00 Africa/Lagos


Will Children Embrace EBooks?
New York Times Best-Selling Authors Hope The Answer Is "Yes!"

IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Do you believe in magic? A new series from nationally acclaimed authors Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon asks elementary school kids to think about what is magic and what is luck. Lucky Phoo is about three girls who adopt a stray dog. As Phoo moves house to house, living with each of them for a few days at a time, the girls start to notice good things happen when Phoo is around, and bad things happen when he's away.

By the story's end, it'll be up to the girls to decide if Phoo is a lucky dog…or not.

Lucky Phoo is the authors' first foray into electronic publishing with a small press.

A long time author for houses such as Simon and Schuster, Scholastic, and Albert Whitman, Deutsch is thrilled at this new adventure. "EBooks have found their place with older and teen readers," she said. "The time is right for younger readers to discover downloading and enjoying books on their Kindles, Nooks, computers and phones. Some have already begun to enjoy the immediacy of having a book in your hands seconds after choosing it, but the technology is new to so many children. It's my hope Lucky Phoo will help introduce young readers to the joys of e-reading."

Deutsch and Cohon have had success with 7-11 year old readers, first with their Blast to the Past historical series of chapter books, and later with movie novelizations and young mysteries for elementary school children. Blast to the Past won a Teacher's Choice Award and the Arizona Glyph prize, while movie novelizations for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and The Smurfs reached success on the New York Times list.

As Terry Trueman, Prinz Honor author, said, "Lucky Phoo is a great story about friendship, love and responsibility--Phoo, the lucky dog who wanders into Sabrina's, Caylie's and Lauren's world is indeed lucky--although maybe not as lucky as these girls whose lives he changes."

Deutsch and Cohon hope a little magic will come their way as Lucky Phoo is now available at http://www.LuckyPhoo.com, http://www.Imajinbooks.com, http://www.Amazon.com, and anywhere EBooks are sold.

Find Stacia Deutsch on Twitter at @staciadeutsch.

SOURCE Stacia Deutsch

CONTACT: stacia@staciadeutsch.com, 720-441-4526

Web Site: http://www.staciadeutsch.com




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J. K. Rowling Releases New Book

The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.

Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.

You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.





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