International Contemporary Writing
CNN calls Shailja Patel ‘the people-centered face of globalisation’. Her publishing debut, Migritude, based on her acclaimed one-woman show, was an Amazon poetry bestseller, a Seattle Times bestseller and was shortlisted for Italy’s Camaiore Prize. Migritude is taught in over fifty colleges and universities worldwide.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor was born in Nairobi, Kenya and educated at the Kenyatta University, the University of Reading and the University of Queensland. She won the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing for the short story ‘Weight of Whispers’, which the BBC described as a ‘… subtle and suggestive work of fiction that dramatises the condition of refugees.’
Maaza Mengiste is a Fulbright Scholar and the award-winning author of Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, selected by the Guardian as one of the ten best contemporary African books. The novel was named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly and other publications.
Clifton Gachagua is the winner of the inaugural Sillerman Prize for African Poetry, 2013, awarded by the African Poetry Book Fund.
Rotimi Babatunde is the author of the short story ‘Bombay’s Republic’, winner of the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing.
