The Man Booker Prize committee last night announced the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013: Eleanor Catton for her 832 page book The Luminaries. The New Zealand native is also the youngest winner of the award at 28. The book she wrote according to the website of the prize is “set in 1866 during […]
If you are Kenyan educated then you must know the name Malkiat Singh. He is the guy who has written over 100 books that are used as textbooks in Kenyan schools. It has emerged that the writer has sold off the rights to all of his books to Longhorn Publishers for Kshs83 million – I […]
The “master of the contemporary short story” Alice Munro is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2013. She is the 2009 winner of the Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, she is also a three-time winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award for fiction. African writers have been known for […]
The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2014 is open for business! Apologies for the yelling and everything. The thing is that I was looking online when I stumbled on this one and was quite happy. The prize opened on 1st October and will be open until 30th November. So what is the Commonwealth Writers prize. Its a […]
Its not easy to do a book fair. You have to find all these publishers and convince them to come together in one space and flog their ware. Those folks have enough on their plate what with convincing the government to get their book on the ministry of education approved list. Then there is the […]
The Jomo Kenyatta Literature Prize happened in Nairobi on Saturday evening at the Intercontinental Hotel. This is one of the most respected awards in the country. They started in 1974 then took a break and restarted in 1990 and are sponsored by Text Book Centre. Prizes are given for three categories – Adult, Youth and […]
25 men and women were on hand last Friday for second edition of the Authors Buffet where authors get an opportunity to bond with their fans and vice versa. The event happened at the Sarit Centre at the sidelines of the Nairobi International Book Fair which was brilliant. Brilliant as the with the fair happening […]
The Storymoja Festival is one of the best literary happenings in Kenya. The Muthoni Garland run event has seen some of the best minds coming to Kenya to support our need to try and help us grow our literary scene. The first festival director was initially the really awesome Sitawa Namwalie who helped it grow […]
Its been quite the buzz of literary activity in Nairobi of late. The Storymoja came and went rather sadly followed quickly by the Nairobi International Book fair which was as quiet as they got. Then there was the Burt Award which happened last Friday evening at the Silver Springs in Nairobi. The Burt Award which […]
I am not a huge fan of terrorists. Its just not my scene. I report on the social aspect of the human story. Birthday parties. Weddings. Literature. National Days of countries in Kenya, launches of products. You will never see me at the front line of a major news story unless you see me covering […]
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