Tag: Macondo Literary Festival
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A snapshot of the Macondo Literary Festival 2024
A snapshot of the Macondo Literary Festival 2024 which was hosted at the Kenya National Theatre, Nairobi from September 20 – 22, 2024 The theme for this year’s Macondo Literary Festival, “The Sea is History,” was inspired by a poem of the same name by Caribbean Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. This year, the curators extended…
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Macondo Literary Festival 2024 guests revealed.
The guests who will feature at the Macondo Literary Festival 2024 at the Kenya National Theatre, Nairobi from September 20 – 22, 2024 have been announced. The Macondo Literary Festival, organised by the Macondo Book Society, hosts panels, readings, performances of poetry and other art forms, and an epic closing party in Nairobi since its…
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Macondo Literary Festival 2024 for September
The Macondo Literary Festival 2024 will be hosted at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi from September 20 – 22, 2024. The theme is “The Sea is History.” The Macondo Literary Festival is a creation of the author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and Anja Bengelstorff-founded Macondo Book Society. The word “Macondo,” comes from the fictional place…
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A snapshot of the Macondo Literary Festival 2023
The third edition of the Macondo Literary Festival 2023 was held at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi from September 15 – 17, 2023. The Macondo Literary Festival is a creation of the Macondo Book Society, a term which comes from “Macondo,” the fictional place where magical things happen in the novel One Hundred Years…
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Macondo Literary Festival 2023 program announced.
The program for the Macondo Literary Festival 2023 to be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from September 15 – 17, 2023, has been announced. You can download it by clicking here. The Macondo Literary Festival is a creation of the Macondo Book Society, founded by author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and journalist Anja Bengelstorff. The name comes…
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Macondo Literary Festival 2023 guests unveiled.
The guests for the Macondo Literary Festival 2023 to be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from September 15 – 17, 2023, have been revealed. The Macondo Literary Festival is a creation of the Macondo Book Society, founded by author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and journalist Anja Bengelstorff. The name comes from “Macondo,” the fictional place where magical…
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Macondo Literary Festival 2023 for Nairobi in September.
The third edition of the Macondo Literary Festival 2023 will be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from September 15 – 17, 2023. The festival theme is “disrupting home.” The Macondo Literary Festival was first hosted by THE Macondo Book Society, founded by author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and journalist Anja Bengelstorff, in Nairobi in 2019. The festival’s…
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Macondo Literary Festival 2022 program revealed.
The program for the Macondo Literary Festival 2022 which happens in Nairobi, Kenya from September 30 – October 2, 2022, has been announced. Tickets can be bought by clicking here. The Macondo Literary Festival was first hosted by the Macondo Book Society, founded by author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and journalist Anja Bengelstorff, in Nairobi in…
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Abdulrazak Gurnah, José Eduardo Agualusa for Macondo Literary Festival 2022.
Abdulrazak Gurnah and José Eduardo Agualusa are some of the guests to feature at the Macondo Literary Festival 2022 running in Nairobi from September 30 – October 2, 2022. The inaugural Macondo Literary Festival was hosted by the Macondo Book Society, founded by author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and journalist Anja Bengelstorff, in Nairobi in 2019.…
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Macondo Literary Festival 2022 for Nairobi in late September.
The Macondo Literary Festival 2022 will run at the Kenya National Theatre, Nairobi from September 30 – October 2, 2022. The Macondo Literary Festival was first hosted by author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and journalist Anja Bengelstorff founded Macondo Book Society in Nairobi in 2019. The festival name came from “Macondo,” the fictional place where magical…
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A snapshot of the Macondo Literary Festival 2019.
The Macondo Literary Festival 2019 happened at the Kenya Cultural Centre in Nairobi from September 27-29, 2019. The festival theme was “Re-imagining Africa’s histories through literature.” “Macondo” is a fictional place where magical things happen in Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. This name was adopted by award-winning novelist…
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Novelist Novuyo Rosa Tshuma thrills in Nairobi city tour.
Novuyo Rosa Tsuma thrilled Nairobi residents as she made appearances at a series of events from September 26-29, 2019. Novuyo Rosa Tsuma is no new name in the contemporary African literary scene. The writer is currently riding high with House of Stone (2018), a novel set during the Gukurahundi, a series of massacres of Ndebele…
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Novuyo Rosa Tsuma to tour Nairobi in late September 2019.
Novuyo Rosa Tsuma will be making appearances at the Goethe-Institut, Macondo Literary Festival, and a Meet The Readers session in Nairobi on September 26 – 29, 2019. Novuyo Rosa Tsuma came to the attention of the Southern African literary scene when her short story You in Paradise won the Intwasa Short Story Competition (now the…
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Lusophone, Anglophone authors to converge on Nairobi for Macondo Literary Festival.
Writers who write in English and Portuguese are set to converge on Nairobi for the first Macondo Literary Festival to take place from September 27-29, 2019. “Macondo” is a fictional place where magical things happen in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Márquez. This magical place was adopted…