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.
Titles on the shortlist 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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