Tag: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
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Khadija Abdalla Bajaber wins Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s The House of Rust was declared the winner of the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction on Friday, October 21, 2022. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated US-American author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children’s books,…
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Episode 27: Kenya Writes with Goethe Institut Khadija Abdalla Bajaber.
The Kenya Writes guest for today is Mombasa-born and bred Khadija Abdalla Bajaber. She won the Graywolf Africa Prize in 2018 and went on to publish The House of Rust. The House of Rust comes with the following blurb; The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadhrami girl in Mombasa. When her…
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Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, Celeste Mohamed among Firecracker Awards 2022 finalists
The finalists for the Firecracker Awards 2022, including Celeste Mohamed, Percival Everett, Caseen Gaines, and Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, were announced on May 18, 2022. The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) is an organisation of independent literary publishers and magazines founded in the USA in 1967. The CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature…
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Meet the African Writers for the Iowa Writing Program 2022.
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, Yasser Abdel Hafez, TJ Benson, Abdelaziz Errachidi, and Tariro Ndoro are the African writers to taking part in the Iowa International Writing Program 2022. The University of Iowa International Writing Program prides itself as being the oldest and largest multinational writing residency in the world. Started in 1967, it is designed for…
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Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s “The House of Rust” launches to full house in Mombasa.
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s debut novel The House of Rust launched to a full house at the Alliance Française, Mombasa on Thursday, November 25, 2021. The evening was emceed by Hawa Noor. Khadija Abdalla Bajaber is one of the brightest young writers to come out of Kenya in the last few years. The Mombasa born and…
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Book Digest: Bisi Adjapon, Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, Nsah Mala, Mbizo Chirasha, and Albert Dalela
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest feature with books from Bisi Adjapon, Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, Nsah Mala, Mbizo Chirasha, and Albert Dalela Keeper of Secrets by Bisi Adjapon Publisher: HarperCollinsPublication Date: November 16, 2021Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: HarperCollins Bisi Adjapon Bisi Adjapon is the writer of…
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Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s “The House of Rust” to launch in Mombasa.
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s debut novel The House of Rust is set to launch at the Alliance Française, Mombasa on Thursday, November 25, 2021. The event will run from 6:30pm – 7:30pm East African Time. In 2017, US publisher Graywolf Press unveiled the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize to be awarded for a first novel manuscript…
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Khadija Abdalla Bajaber is the Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2018 winner
Kenyan poet Khadija Abdalla Bajaber has been announced as the Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2018 winner for her manuscript The House of Rust. She receives a $12,000 advance and her manuscript gets published in English by Graywolf Press and in Italian by 66thand2nd. A few months ago we announced a call out for an exciting…