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Peabody Award-Winning Cameroonian Filmmaker Osvalde Lewat Makes Her English-Language Debut with The Aquatics
Osvalde Lewat has a Peabody Award already in her corner, and now she is stepping into fresh creative territory with her English-language debut, a novel called The Aquatics.
The Cameroonian filmmaker is best known for her documentary work, but The Aquatics marks a significant shift, bringing her voice to a new medium and a new audience of readers who may be encountering her storytelling for the very first time.
Details about the book's plot and publication timeline are still emerging, but the move from screen to page by a filmmaker of Lewat's caliber is the kind of literary moment worth watching closely.
Originally published by Brittle Paper.