Tag: Dance of the Jakaranda
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Peter Kimani up for Frederick Forsyth chaired “People’s Book Prize.”
Peter Kimani’s Dance of the Jakaranda is up for the Frederick Forsyth chaired People’s Book Prize. Let’s vote for the man. The People’s Book Prize was founded in 2010 by UK resident Tatiana Wilson to ensure that new authors are given equal opportunity in the marketplace, based purely on their talent and ability. The prize…
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Peter Kimani launches “Dance of the Jakaranda” at the Goethe-Institut Nairobi.
Peter Kimani launched his novel Dance of the Jakaranda at the Goethe-Institut Nairobi on September 28, 2018. The Kenyan author had Wamuyu Maina as discussant and James Murua as the Moderator. Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani is a novel that follows characters in the 1890s during the building of the Lunatic Express that…
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Peter Kimani’s “Dance of the Jakaranda” to make Nairobi splash.
Kenyan writer and poet Peter Kimani is set to make a Nairobi splash with his novel Dance of the Jakaranda. He will be having a launch on September 27 at the Goethe-Institut Nairobi followed on September 28 with a book signing at Prestige Bookshop. Peter Kimani is an award-winning Kenyan author and journalist who works…
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Peter Kimani for Nairobi book signing and discussion.
Peter Kimani who has written Dance of The Jakaranda will be the featured author at the Kenya National Theatre on Saturday June 16, 2018. The event kicks off at 11am and ends at 1pm. Peter Kimani is one of Kenya’s leading writers and poets with a long history as a journalist and editor. His first…
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Kimani, Adebayo, Okorafor, Noah make New York Times Notable Books of 2017
Peter Kimani, Ayobami Adebayo, Nnedi Okorafor, and Trevor Noah have made the New York Times Notable Books of 2017. The New York Times, a US newspaper based in New York City, is one of the most important books in the literary world. Apart from being a publication that covers the literary scene in the US…
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Peter Kimani Launches Dance of the Jakaranda in Nairobi
Peter Kimani Launched his novel Dance of the Jakaranda at the Aga Khan University’s Graduate School of Media and Communications in Nairobi on Thursday March 30, 2017. Peter Kimani is one of Kenya’s leading writers and poets with a long history as a journalist and editor. His first entry into the literary space was with…