Tag: Burt Award
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Chris Okemwa is Kenyan Burt Award 2015 winner
Chris Okemwa was announced the winner of this year’s Burt Award 2015 at an invite-only ceremony at the Kempinski Nairobi on Friday night. He won the award which is aimed at literature for young adults for his manuscript titled Sabina and the Ogre. Okemwa isn’t new to the winning game. He was the 2002 Editor’s…
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Argwings Otieno wins Burt Award for African Literature 2013
It’s been quite the buzz of literary activity in Nairobi of late. The Storymoja came and went rather sadly followed quickly by the Nairobi International Book Fair which was as quiet as they got. Then there was the Burt Award which happened last Friday evening at the Silver Springs in Nairobi. The Burt Award which…