Tag: The Dragonfly Sea
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owour’s “The Dragonfly Sea” for OneRead App in December 2020.
The One Read App offering for December, Yvonne Adhiambo Owour’s The Dragonfly Sea, was revealed today, December 1, 2020. One Read is a mobile application, brought to you by Nigeria’s Sterling Bank and Ouida Books, aimed at promoting writers, publishers, and other players in the African book industry to create a community of readers. Readers…
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor at the MacMillan Memorial Library.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor was the featured guest at the MacMillan Memorial Library on Saturday, August 3, 2019. She was moderated by Nanjala Nyabola. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor emerged in 2003 when her short story Weight of Whispers won the Caine Prize for African Writing. She took on the title “novelist” with her 2013 debut novel Dust…
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor launches “The Dragonfly Sea” in Nairobi.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor launched The Dragonfly Sea at Prestige Books in Nairobi on Friday, March 1, 2019. It was the first launch of the book in the world. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is arguably the most important writer to come out of Kenya in this generation. She emerged in 2003 when her short story Weight of…
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor reads “The Dragonfly Sea” at Freedom Conversations.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor read an excerpt from her highly anticipated sophomore novel The Dragonfly Sea at the “Freedom Conversations” event at the Laico Regency Hotel, Nairobi on November 30, 2018. Jalada Africa and Edinburgh International Book Festival jointly hosted eight delegates from Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Kenya at the first Outriders Africa symposium. These…
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Exclusive: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s “The Dragonfly Sea” for March 2019.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea will be available for purchase on March 12, 2019. This will be the second book from the Kenyan writer after her 2014 smash hit Dust. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor burst onto the African literary scene when she won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2003 for her short story…
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor teases The Dragonfly Sea at her Oeuvre
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor teased her new book The Dragonfly Sea at the endnote address of an Oeuvre in her honour at the African Leadership Centre on Friday 10th June 2016. It was a special time for Kenyan writer Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor as she was feted with an Oeuvre on her work in the last decade…