Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Kenyanb. January 1, 1968Literary Fiction

Kenyan novelist whose Dust is a lyrical, ambitious novel about a Kenyan family's reckoning with its country's colonial and postcolonial violence. She won the Caine Prize for African Writing. She is one of the most celebrated contemporary Kenyan literary voices.

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