Excellence in art is unutterable: interview with Isidore Diala

Abstract

In this interview with Chibueze Darlington Anuonye, Nigerian writer and respected literary scholar Isidore Diala speaks about his recently published play, The Truce, and about the impact of literary prizes on his creative and scholarly careers, highlighting the prospects and challenges of writing and publishing in Africa, where the economic capital of literature is daunted by the economic austerity of the continent.

Keywords:

• The Truce
• Nigerian war literature
• literary prizes for Nigerian writing

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Chibueze Darlington Anuonye

Chibueze Darlington Anuonye is a literary conversationist and nonfiction editor at Ngiga Review. His research interests cut across oral, postcolonial, and diaspora literatures. He was awarded the Amplify Fellowship of the MasterCard Foundation in 2021.