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Binyavanga Wainaina

  • Skill Category: Writers
  • Present Address: London, UK
  • Country: Kenya
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Biography

Binyavanga Wainaina (1971-2019) was a Kenyan author, journalist, and winner of the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story “Discovering Home.” He was the founding editor of Kwani?, a literary magazine about East Africa, where he published several subsequent Caine Prize winners. Wainaina also wrote for National Geographic, the Sunday Times (South Africa), Granta, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. He received a Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship in 2007. His first book, a memoir, One Day I Will Write About This Place, was published in 2011 by Graywolf Press.

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Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina (18 January 1971 – 21 May 2019) was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing.

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