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词条 Okwiri Oduor
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Okwiri Oduor (born 1988/1989) is a Kenyan writer, who won the 2014 Caine Prize.[1] In April 2014 she was named on the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define trends in African literature,[2][3] with her story "Rag Doll" being included in the subsequent anthology edited by Ellah Allfrey, Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara.[4]

Life

She was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Her novella The Dream Chasers was highly commended in the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize.[5] Her short story "My Father's Head" won her the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing, making her the third Kenyan winner of the prize after Binyavanga Wainaina in 2002 and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor in 2003. Oduor is a 2014 MacDowell Colony fellow.[5]

She is writing a novel.[6][7]

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.caineprize.com/news_2014_winner.php |date=July 14, 2013 |author= |publisher=The Caine Prize for African Writing |title=Okwiri Oduor wins fifteenth Caine Prize for African Writing |accessdate=8 July 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718111904/http://www.caineprize.com/news_2014_winner.php |archivedate=18 July 2014 |df= }}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Africa39 Authors' biographies|url=https://www.hayfestival.com/africa39/downloads/Africa39_authors_Biographies.pdf|publisher=Hay Festival|accessdate=4 February 2015}}
3. ^[https://africa39blog.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/spotlight-okwiri-oduor/ "Spotlight: Okwiri Oduor"], Africa39 Blog.
4. ^[https://africa39blog.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/africa39-anthology-short-story-review-rag-doll-by-okwiri-oduor/ "Reading the Africa39 Anthology: 'Rag Doll' by Okwiri Oduor"], Africa39 Blog.
5. ^{{cite news|last1=Lee|first1=Felicia R.|title=Okwiri Oduor Wins Caine Prize for African Writing|newspaper=The New York Times|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/okwiri-oduor-wins-caine-prize-for-african-writing/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1|accessdate=28 September 2014|date=15 July 2014}}
6. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.hayfestival.com/artist.aspx?artistid=5990|title=Hay Festival|publisher=Hayfestival.com|accessdate=1 January 2015}}
7. ^{{cite news|author1=Enjoli Liston|title=Okwiri Oduor wins 2014 Caine Prize for African writing|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/14/okwiri-oduor-wins-2014-caine-prize-african-writing|accessdate=28 September 2014|work=The Guardian|date=14 July 2014}}

External links

  • "Kenya’s Okwiri Oduor Wins The 2014 Caine Prize For African Writing", okayafrica
  • {{cite news|title=Okwiri Oduor|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023310x|accessdate=6 October 2014|work=BBC World News}}
  • Aaron Bady, "breathless babbling and blathering about Okwiri Oduor", The New Inquiry, 30 September 2014.
  • Chris Brazier, "A word with Okwiri Oduor", New Internationalist, October 2014.
  • [https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6809&loclr=rssloc Webcast at the Library of Congress, 17 April 2015]
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