NEWS & EVENTS

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    2024
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• SEPTEMBER 8
  Berlin Literature Festival
  
   

• Interview with The Republic literary magazine
  
   

• Noo has contributed to Go Girl 2 - The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure anthology 
   

• APRIL 
  Interview in The Africa Report magazine
   

• APRIL 5
  Sherbourne Travel Writing Festival at 17.00 GMT
   

• MARCH 14
  Royal Society for Asian Affairs at 17.00 GMT

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    2023​
 

• Appearance on BBC Radio 4 Start the Week: China - It's Economy and Poetry
   

• LIVE TALK on 23rd November at Stanfords Bookshop, Covent Garden, London: Noo will speak about her latest book, Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China, 7pm-8.30pm.
   

• BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: writers Teju Cole and Noo Saro-Wiwa and Tate curator Osei Bonsu talk to Laurence Scott. 
   

• Noo's second non-fiction travel narrative, Black Ghosts: A Journey Into The Lives of Africans in China, will be released on November 2nd.
   

• Noo will participate in a panel discussion: Female Travel Writers, alongside Sara Wheeler, Gráinne Lyons and Taran Khan at the Frontline Club in London on July 24th at 7pm 
   

• Noo chairs a talk "Surviving The Climate Emergency" with science journalist Gaia Vince at the Festival of the Garden in Lewes, Sussex on Sunday July 16th 
   

• Noo features in Super Eagles '96, a new documentary about the Nigerian football team's success at the 1996 Olympics
   

• Pathfinder Prize winners Lola Akinmade Åkerström, Noo Saro-Wiwa and Erik Jaråker to go on an expedition to Greenland, following in the footsteps of Tété-Michel Kpomassie, author of An African In Greenland  (April-May)

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     2022

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• The Economist names Looking For Transwonderland among its 'six essential travel books'
   

• Noo joins the editorial advisory board of the publishers Head of Zeus (HOZ), to work on its African Writers Series
   

• Noo presents BBC World Service radio documentary, Silence Would Be Treason, about the last writings of her father, Ken Saro-Wiwa

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     2021

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• Noo's next travel book, Black Ghost, which explores the African community in China, will be published by Canongate in 2023 
   

• OCTOBER 28
  Noo will present a talk at Merton Library (Wimbledon) about her travels in the Niger Delta. 
  6-7pm. Click here for free tickets
   

• Noo Saro-Wiwa presents The First Britons – a TV documentary about the Cheddar Man human fossil  (on Dan Snow’s History Hit channel)  
   

• JUNE 17-20
  Literary Festival: Atlantide (Nantes, France)
   

• Travel Writing World: author profile interview
   

• Guest speaker at the Nomadic Network virtual book club  (January 6th) 

 

    2020

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• Noo presents BBC Radio 4 programme Every Little Touch, in which she gives her personal perspective on poetry’s relationship with touch, as part of Radio 4's Touch Test week.
   

• Speaking to students at Roedean School for Black History month (October 16)
   

• Noo Saro-Wiwa has been selected for the prestigious Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship in Italy in 2021.
   

• Oprah magazine lists Looking For Transwonderland among its top travel books
   

• National Geographic names Looking For Transwonderland among its notable 'road trips' travel books
   

• Looking For Transwonderland is named in The Guardian's 10 of the best road trips to take … by audiobook

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    2019 
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• NOVEMBER 29
  In conversation with Juliane Okot Bitek (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
   

• JUNE 15 
  Discussing Looking for Transwonderland at Arcadia Bookstore (Rovereto, Italy)
   

• JUNE 14
  QuiVirgola bookstore with A. Igoni Barrett (Schio, Italy)
   

• JUNE 13 
  Discussing Looking for Transwonderland at Università Ca' Foscari (Venice, Italy)
   

• JUNE 12 
  CreativAfrica Festival: discussing Travel in Africa (Turin, Italy)
   

• JUNE 6-7
  Discussing Looking For Transwonderland (Macomer, Sardinia) 
   

• MARCH-APRIL
  Arts & Literary Arts Residency (Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy) 
   

• JANUARY 26
  Mboka Festival (Banjul, The Gambia)

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   2018

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• DECEMBER
  Noo Saro-Wiwa named by Condé Nast Traveler Magazine as one of the "The World's 30 Most Influential Female Travellers"
  
  OCTOBER 27 

• Aké Arts & Book Festival  (Lagos, Nigeria)
   

• MAY 26 
  BareLit Festival: Who Gets to Be Tastemaker? In conversation with Bridget Minamore about cultural criticism. 
   

• MAY 
  Noo Saro-Wiwa was granted a 2017 AIR Bellagio residency, to be undertaken in 2019.
   

• MARCH 5
  Brixton BookJam  (London, UK) ​

 

    2017
 

• NOVEMBER 25
  La Città del Libro Festival (Campi Salentina, Puglia, Italy) 
   

• OCTOBER 19
  Cambridge Festival of Ideas Refugees: Truth and Innocent Lies  (Cambridge University, UK)
   

• OCTOBER 1
  Storymoja Festival (Nairobi, Kenya) 
   

• JUNE 28 
  Discussing Looking For Transwonderland at Fuori Luogo Culture and Arts Residence (Asti, Italy)
   

• JUNE 26 
  Discussion with Samia Nkrumah on life as daughters of political icons (The Conversation, BBC World Service)
   

• JUNE 24
  Speech at Roedean School, Brighton
   

• MAY 20
  Dublin International Literature Festival
   

• MAY 15
  Speaker at Le Gymnase Jean Sturm (Strasbourg, France)
   

• APRIL 6
  Guest lecturer at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland: the complexities of writing about Africa.

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• To celebrate International Women's Day, the New York Public Library has selected Looking For Transwonderland as one of 365 notable books written by female authors.
  
  
  2016
   

• Literary Festival of Sardinia  (Gavoi, Italy - July 2)
   

• Looking For Transwonderland (Italian version) has been awarded Italy's Albatros Travel Literature Prize. in Palestrina, Rome (June 25)
   

• Reading at the launch of A Place of Refuge - an anthology on asylum seekers (London National Theatre, June 10)

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  Stoke Newington Literary Festival  (London - June 5)
   

• Podcast interview on Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys Online Radio  (recorded May 7)
   

• Guest speaker at Washington College - Nigeria: When Worlds Collide (Maryland, USA - April 26)
   

• Ananti de sa Ziminera - Fèstival Literàriu Difùndiu (Sardinia, Italy - March 12-13)
  
  
  2015
   

• Noo Saro-Wiwa has been awarded a Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship for non-fiction
   

• Live, online discussion with Nigeria scholar Darren Kew of UMass Boston (organised by Primary Source, December 2)
   

• Primary Source, a nonprofit organization that works to advance global education in primary and secondary schools, has selected Looking for Transwonderland as its annual Global Read title for teachers throughout the United States. 
   

• Verden i Bergen, Norway (literature festival, November 28)
   

• Maynooth University, Ireland (November 10)
   

• Ottobre Africano (literature festival): Parma, Turin and Rome in Italy (October 24-29)
   

• Saro-Wiwa is the focus of Studies in Travel Writing Volume 19, Issue 3, 2015
   

• Festivaletteratura, Mantova, Italy (September 9-13)
   

• ​Release of Italian translation of Looking For Transwonderland (66thand2nd, 2015)
   

• Africa Writes literature festival, London (July 4)
   

• Speaker at the University of Central Lancashire (March 16-17)
   

• Uganda International Writers Conference 2015, Kampala (March 1-6)