Lily G. N. Mabura is a Kenyan writer known for her short story How Shall We Kill the Bishop, which was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2010.[1]
Lily Mabura | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Kenyan |
| Education | University of Nairobi (BS) University of Idaho (MFA) University of Missouri (PhD) |
| Notable awards | Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature (2001) |
Career and education
editMabura earned a PhD in Engĺish from the University of Missouri, a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Idaho and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Nairobi. Her 2004 thesis was titled On the Slopes of Mt. Kenya.[2] She is an author and academic, having taught at the University of Missouri and at the American University of Sharjah.[3][4]
Honours and awards
editMabura has received a number of awards including:
- Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature, Children's Winner 2001 for her book, Ali, the Little Sultan[5]
- Kenya's National Book Week Literary Award for The Pretoria Conspiracy in 2001[5]
- Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers in 2007[6]
- University of Rochester's Frederick Douglass Fellowship in 2008-2009[7]
Selected works
editArticles
edit- Mabura, Lily (2008). "Breaking Gods: an African postcolonial Gothic reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'Purple Hibiscus' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun'". Research in African Literatures. 39 (1): 203–222. doi:10.2979/RAL.2008.39.1.203. OCLC 775273497. S2CID 197835535.[8]
- Mabura, Lily G. N. (2010). "Black Women Walking Zimbabwe: Refuge and Prospect in the Landscapes of Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Its Sequel, The Book of Not". Research in African Literatures. 41 (3): 88–111. doi:10.2979/ral.2010.41.3.88. JSTOR 10.2979/ral.2010.41.3.88. S2CID 154648515.
- Mabura, Lily G. N. (2012-08-26). "Teaching Leila Aboulela in the context of other authors across cultures: creative writing, the Third Culture Kid phenomenon and Africana womanism". Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives. 9 (2): 79–92. doi:10.18538/lthe.v9.n2.97. ISSN 2077-5504.
- Mabura, Lily; Husni, Ronak (2019-04-01). "Polemics of Love and the Family in A New Day in Old Sana'a". Meridians. 18 (1): 161–182. doi:10.1215/15366936-7297191. ISSN 1547-8424. S2CID 187481256.
Books
edit- Mabura, Lily (1999). Ali, the Little Suntan. Focus Publications. ISBN 9789966882349.
- Mabura, Lily (2000). The Pretoria Conspiracy. Focus Books. ISBN 9789966882462.
- Mabura, Lily; Wamiru, Celestine M (2002). Seth the silly gorilla. Nairobi: Phoenix Publishers. ISBN 978-9966470362. OCLC 55732624.
- Mabura, Lily (2005). Saleh Kanta and the Cavaliers. Phoenix Publishers. ISBN 9789966470195.
- Mabura, Lily (2012). How Shall We Kill the Bishop and Other Stories. Pearson Education/Heinemann. ISBN 9780435075415.
- Mabura, Lily; Mugubi, John (2017). The Warm Heart of Africa and Other Stories. Longhorn Publishers (Kenya) Limited. ISBN 9789966315748.
- Mabura, Lily (2018). remembrance. Longhorn Publishers (Kenya) Limited. ISBN 9789966315717.
References
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- ^ "Previously Shortlisted". Caine Prize. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
- ^ Mabura, Lily (2004). On the slopes of Mt. Kenya (Thesis). OCLC 64666319.
- ^ Writing, The Caine Prize for African (2010). A Life in Full and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2010. New Internationalist. ISBN 9781906523374.
- ^ "Who's Who in Humanities: Lily Mabura". humanities.academickeys.com. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
- ^ a b "African Books Collective: Lily Mabura". www.africanbookscollective.com. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
- ^ "2007 - Lily Mabura". Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
- ^ "Past Fellows : The Frederick Douglass Institute : University of Rochester". www.sas.rochester.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
- ^ Daria, Tunca (2009-08-21). "Annotation of Lily G.N. Mabura's "Breaking Gods: An African Postcolonial Gothic Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun"". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. hdl:2268/65303. ISSN 1940-6231.