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 […]
Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Anthony Joseph, Denise Saul, and Yomi Ṣode are on the shortlist for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022 announced on Wednesday, October 13, 2022. The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry was inaugurated to celebrate the UK Poetry Book Society’s 40th birthday and honour its founding poet in 1993. T.S. Eliot, […]
Saddiq Dzukogi’s Your Crib, My Qibla was declared the winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022 on Wednesday, October 13, 2022. The Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry is awarded by Arrowsmith Press, in conjunction with Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and The Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. It is awarded to a full-length book of […]
