Binyavanga Wainaina


Kenya (1971 - 2019)

Binyavanga Wainaina is the founding editor of Kwani?, a leading African literary magazine. He won the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing, and has written for Vanity Fair, Granta, and The New York Times. Wainaina directs the Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists at Bard College.
 

Awards: Caine (2002)
 
Collections
   Discovering Home (2006)
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Books containing stories by Binyavanga Wainaina
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Gods and Soldiers (2009)
The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing
edited by
Rob Spillman

Awards
2002 Caine Prize for African Writing : Discovering Home

Binyavanga Wainaina recommends
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Freshwater (2018)
Akwaeke Emezi
"Wow. The net effect is a feeling of being peeled open, and quickly finding that skinless place to be normal. More than any novel I can remember, it feels utterly present to the place we are in the world."



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