Tag: Yvonne Adhiambo Owour
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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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Nuruddin Farah to launch book at Kwani? Litfest 2016
The fifth edition of Kwani? Litfest, a gathering of writers, artists, and thinkers from across Africa, takes place every two years happens in Nairobi, Kenya from 1st- 6th December 2015. This year’s festival with the theme, “Beyond the Map of English: Writers in Conversation on Language” hosts readings, performances, and discussions that explore issues of…
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Kisumu global ambassador Yvonne Adhiambo Owour for Open Book
Yvonne Adhiambo Owour is having a red-letter kind of year. On the literary side, her debut novel is getting accolades right, left and centre from prizes. Yesterday the popular writer was given a rare nod by the Kenyan publishing fraternity with a shortlist of the Jomo Kenyatta Literary Prize for 2015. Away from the literature,…
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Etisalat Prize Winner 2014 Songeziwe Mahlangu in Nairobi readings
South African writer Songeziwe Mahlangu, author of Penumbra and the winner of the Etisalat Prize 2014 will be in Nairobi for an afternoon of readings and conversations. The event on Sunday, May 3rd will also feature veteran Kenyan writer, Henry Ole Kulet, Caine prize winner Yvonne Adhiambo Owour, historian Ngala Chome and Kwani Trust Managing…
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Top Writers in New African 100 most influential list.
The New African magazine has published its highly regarded 100 Hundred Most Influential Africans 2014 and it has some of what the team who run the publication considers the Africans to watch in 2014. The list is segmented into different categories like politics, media, arts and culture, business, and more. A few of the writers…