Rémy Ngamije is a Rwandan-born Namibian author, editor, publisher, photographer, literary educator, and entrepreneur. His debut novel The Eternal Audience Of One was first published in South Africa by Blackbird Books and is available worldwide from Scout Press (S&S). In 2022 it was honoured with a Special Mention at the inaugural Grand Prix Panafricain De Litterature and won the inaugural African Literary Award from the Museum of the African Diaspora. Only Stars Know The Meaning Of Space, his collection of award-winning fiction, was published in December, 2024 by Scout Press (S&S).
He won the Africa Regional Prize of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and was shortlisted for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing in 2021 and 2020. He was longlisted and shortlisted for the 2020 and 2021 Afritondo Short Story Prizes respectively. In 2019 he was shortlisted for Best Original Fiction by Stack Magazines.
Rémy is the founder and chairperson of Doek, an independent arts organisation in Namibia supporting the literary arts and the editor-in-chief of Doek! Literary Magazine, Namibia’s first and only literary magazine. He is also the founder and director of several literary initiatives such as the Doek Literary Awards, the Doek Literary Festival, and the Doek Anthology.
He has served as a judge of the Kalemba, Kendeka, Plaza, Commonwealth, and Afritondo short story prizes and is on Kismet Magazine‘s advisory council.
Rémy’s writing has been supported by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Miles Morland Foundation, and The Africa Institute. He has made literary appearances in Accra, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Berlin, Basel, Dubai, and Sharjah.
He is represented by Cecile Barendsma of the Cecile B Literary Agency.
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