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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJHJi-iv5k. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), © 2020 Macmillan | All stories, art, and posts are the copyright of their respective authors. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected and upended life nearly everywhere, throwing into high relief our collective social and economic strengths and weaknesses. The 2020 Clarke Conversation takes up the theme of crisis and imagination: how crisis makes emphatic the need to reexamine through the lens of imagination the broad sweep of our relationships, past choices, and our approach to human dignity. She serves on several boards, including the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Greenfield Community College, Dent the Future, and Skycatch, an innovative A.I. @Nostradamus, I respect you comment because you are entitled to it.. With my old age, for a second I thought that was shala mwana on the picture. THE OLD DRIFT is everything fiction should be, and everything those of us who write should aspire to. Naturally, women have different levels of compassion, which combined or working together with men's skills can be capable of producing great... Google Podcasts x PRX on Wednesday 30th made the global announcement that Leading Ladies Zambia podcast would be part of a group of 20... By Sishuwa Sishuwa ‘The great African novel of the 21st century’: Namwali Serpell wins Arthur... 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Vision; 2020 Awardees & Conversation; 2019 Clarke Awards Dinner; Clarke Awardees; Working with Youth; Clarke Conversations; Unleash Imagination 2018; Unleash Imagination 2017; 2017 Centenary; Contact ; Donate; Select Page. Lifetime Achievement Awardee: William Draper, a venture capitalist pivotal in the development of Silicon Valley and the former head of the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the United Nations Development Programme. Imagination in Service to Society Awardee: Ted Chiang, much awarded writer of fiction including Hugos and Nebulas. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.". She recently co-anchored ABC News Live’s coverage of the SpaceX launch and continues to consult on coverage of that mission. Piling onto these unprecedented challenges in the U.S. and elsewhere are cries for eliminating systemic social and racial inequities. The upnd supporting evil diasporans can learn a thing or two from this brilliant woman. In this one-hour live video event, the three 2020 Clarke Awardees will reexamine and reimagine our possible futures. A well-deserved win.”. Namwali Serpell has won the UK’s top prize for science fiction, the Arthur C Clarke award, for her first novel The Old Drift, which judges described as “stealth sci-fi”. Schwab Vampire Story, Ten International Horror Movies to Stream This Halloween, The Difference Is Entirely One of Setting: Iain Banks’, What Comic Book and Toy Collecting Taught Me About Writing, Something in the Water, Something in the Air: Kaaron Warren’s “The Diesel Pool”, Never Say You Can’t Survive: Find Your Voice and Make It LOUD. Netflix Orders Adaptation of V.E. The other finalists included: Receive notification by email when a new comment is added. There is nothing Zambian about her. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says empowering women and girls with life skills will help reduce cases of gender based violence (GBV) in... Kaputa District has opened its first ever eye clinic at Kaputa District hospital with funding from Onesight, a non-governmental organization specialized in providing eye... By Margaret Kangwa Pikiti He has requested us to make direct contact with this amazing writer who is representing Zambia well. Cleaning toilets and ranting about our government on lusaka times will not take you places. Our pandemic-ravaged world reminds us how connected our world has been for the last century or more – and this book points to the global nature of science fiction.”. Lusaka - Zambia: Namwali Serpell has won the UK’s top prize for science fiction, the Arthur C Clarke award, for her first novel The Old Drift, which judges described as Announcing the Winners of the the Inaugural Ignyte Awards! Read it if you can; it will make you think twice about Covid-19 and technology. And throughout these crises, we continue to bear witness to what Arthur Clarke warned as “our planet crying out” for us to listen and take action to stem global warming. Other speaking highlights include the opening speech for TED 2011 from space, extensive NASA commentary for CNN, ABC and Fox, addressing the UN for World Ocean Day and TED Unplugged 2019. It’s unfortunate that culture of reading novels and books has taken a downturn in the smartphone era. … Thank you for keeping the discussion, and our community, civil and respectful. Tag Archives: futurism arthur c. clarke 1960: A Vision of the Future, by Arthur C. Clarke. The president was very proud when we spoke about this. Imagination—forward-looking imagination—becomes a vital tool to think through our values, our technologies, our social and political arrangements, our interdependencies at home, and with peoples in distant places. At last, an African book of unarguable universality,” said Thompson. The Zambian author’s debut tells the stories of three families over three generations, moving from a colonial settlement by Victoria Falls at the turn of the 20th century, to the 1960s as Zambia attempts to send a woman to the moon, and into the near future. But better how? She is an amateur flute player, best known for her “Space Duet” with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and her work from space with the acclaimed Irish band, The Chieftains. You must be a registered user to subscribe to threads. Must be worth reading. Our Privacy Notice has been updated to explain how we use cookies, which you accept by continuing to use this website. Accepting on behalf of CERN will be Dr. Fabiola Gianotti, the Director General. Congratulations, Namwali, you have made Zambia proud. The stealth ‘sci-fi’ term was given from the jury that conferred the Arthur C Clarke Award. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djGqvoBwQik, Songwriter and Vocalist James Sakala Educates us on songwriting, preparation and more. It is heartwarming to learn that a Zambian writer Namwali Serpell has won the UK’s top prize for science fiction, the Arthur C Clarke award, for her first novel ‘The Old Drift’. Innovator Awardee:  CERN, The European Council for Nuclear Research, incubator of the World Wide Web and the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. In crises of this scale and impact, imagination becomes a lifeline from the world we knew to one that we want to make better. Andrew Butler, who served as the non-voting chair of judges, said that Serpell wrote, “a timely novel which interrogates colonialism from within and points to the science fictionality of everyday events. This is her second win for the same book. The videos will be available on our website in the weeks before the live Clarke Conversation. In our present moment of crisis, we turn to imagination to comprehend our “now” and what could be “next”. Stories of Your Life and Others has been translated into 21 languages, and Exhalation was chosen by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2019. Thompson, who won the Clarke last year for Rosewater, had nothing but glowing praise about Serpell’s book, saying, “At last, an African book of unarguable universality. I found it boring. The 2020 Clarke Conversation takes up the theme of crisis and imagination: how crisis makes emphatic the need to reexamine through the lens of imagination the broad sweep of our relationships, past choices, and our approach to human dignity. UK Clarke Awards; Sir Arthur Biography; Unleash Imagination. London: Namwali Serpell’s book, The Old Drift, has been conferred with the Arthur C Clarke and termed as ‘stealth sci-fi’; ‘Marquezian’, for its grand, magical realism, and a work of ‘Afro-futurism’.. This is why my faith in the Clarke Award is unshakable.”. And President Lungu took to Facebook to congratulate Serpell on the achievement. To withdraw your consent, see Your Choices. The judges made their decision after nominating The Old Drift and five more fantastic books as for the grand prize this year. Her win was awarded by a panel that included Stewart Hotston, Alasdair Stuart, Farah Mendlesohn, and Chris Pak of the Science Fiction Foundation, and Rhian Drinkwater of the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival. Author Tade Thompson announced today that Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift has won the 34th Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction. She coached actress Sandra Bullock from the ISS in preparation for Bullock’s astronaut role in “Gravity.”. Along with the award, Serpell will take home an engraved bookend and a prize of £2020. “The Old Drift is, as one of our judges put it, ‘stealth sci-fi’, with inheritance and infection at its heart,” said Butler. “At last, a book that acknowledges that the African lives with the fantastic and mundane. Last year’s winner of the prize, Tade Thompson, called The Old Drift “the great African novel of the 21st century”. Why you jumping around as if she was your sister? But we often fail to consider the conditions that allow imagination to flourish and to be an active resource for communal conversation to use imagination as a means for understanding and renewal in our public dialogue. The Old Drift is everything fiction should be, and everything those of us who write should aspire to. The Foundation .

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