It is with genuine sorrow that we are learning of the sudden death of our alum, collaborator, and friend, the Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa. Lina Sinjab’s short film about him is one homage among many thoughtful recollections. RIP.
- Africa
- Eastern Africa
- Kenya
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Yvonne Adhiambo OWUOR (fiction writer; Kenya) is an author, lecturer, and arts curator. Her first novel, Dust, was published by Knopf in 2014, and received the 2015 TBC Jomo Kenyatta Literature Award. In 2003, she won the Caine Prize for African Writing for her story “Weight of Whispers,” also the title of a 2003 volume. Owuor was an IWP Fall Resident in 2005, and returns in 2017 as the Residency’s first Grinnell Fellow. She participates courtesy of Grinnell College.
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