Mubanga Kalimamukwento Explained

Mubanga Kalimamukwento (born 1988)[1] is a Zambian writer, known for her novel [2] The Mourning Bird,[3] which focuses on Zambia's AIDS crisis, and Obligations to the Wounded, her thematically linked collection of short stories centring the lives of Zambian women and girls.[4] The Mourning Bird was awarded the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award in 2018/2019.[5] In 2024, she became the first African writer[6] to win the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023-09-26 . Mubanga Kalimamukwento . 2024-03-04 . Pontas Agency . en-US.
  2. Web site: theafricainstitute . 2023-07-03 . The Africa Institute Announces Recipients for the 2023 Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship . 2024-03-06 . theafricainstitute . en-US.
  3. Book: Kalimamukwento, Mubanga . The Mourning Bird . 2019 . Jacana . 978-1-4314-2902-8 . en.
  4. Web site: Thomas . Kelly . 2024-01-30 . Drue Heinz Literature Prize Winner Explores Zambian Womanhood . 2024-03-06 . University of Pittsburgh Press.
  5. Web site: 2020-07-03 . [Sponsored] Mubanga Kalimamukwento wins Best Fiction at the 2020 CDI Zambia Tell Your Own Story National Book Awards ]. 2024-03-04 . The Johannesburg Review of Books . en-US.
  6. Web site: Chiemeke . Jerry . 2024-03-02 . Out Of Africa: Zambian Author Mubanga Kalimamukwento Wins 2024 Drue Heinz Literature Prize The British Blacklist . 2024-03-04 . en-GB.
  7. Web site: 2024-02-05 . Mubanga Kalimamukwento won the 2024 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Angie Cruz . 2024-03-04 . University of Pittsburgh . en.

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