Good literary news for Kenya
Parsalelo Kantai has been shortlisted for The Caine Prize for African Writing (http://www.caineprize.com/) 2004 for his story, Comrade Lemma (http://www.kwani.org/comrade%20lemma.htm). He was recently awarded a Reuters fellowship at Oxford University for a year. Parsalelo is one of Kenya's leading investigative journalists, and the editor of Ecoforum. His Ecoforum cover story, A Deal in the Mara, has thrown light on the business practices in the Mara Conservancy.
Kenya does it again!
Parsalelo Kantai has been shortlisted for The Caine Prize for African Writing( http://www.caineprize.com/ ) 2004 for his story, Comrade Lemma (http://www.kwani.org/comrade%20lemma.htm). He was recently awarded a Reuters fellowship at Oxford University for a year.
Parsalelo is one of Kenya's leading investigative journalists, and the editor of Ecoforum. His Ecoforum cover story, A Deal in the Mara, has thrown light on the business practices in the Mara Conservancy. His short story, "Speak Kingoso Please, This is The Mayor's Parlour", was published in kwani? 01, the first edition of Kenya's new literary journal,(http://www.kwani.org). Clearly, this is a young man with rare and diverse talent in writing.
For the third year in a row, a Kenyan is one of five writers selected by the Caine Prize for African Writing's prestigious panel of judges. In 2002, Binyavanga Wainaina, won the prestigious award for his story, Discovering Home. It was the first time in the history of the award that the judges decision was unanimous. Binyavanga came home and founded kwani?, a unique literary journal, with the aim of publishing the myriad of talented writers frustrated in their efforts at publication. In 2003, Yvonne Adhiambo Awuor won with her story, Weight of Whispers, published in kwani?01.
The writers selected will attend a busy programme of events in July this year, including a reading of their works at the Royal Overseas League, a symposium at London University's Institute of English studies and a colloquium for the British Council. The winner of the Prize will be announced at the annual award dinner in Oxford, at the Bodleian Library.
Hongera, Parsalelo, you have done us proud!
June Wanjiru
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