Lily Mabura

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Lily Mabura
OccupationWriter
NationalityKenyan
Education University of Nairobi (BS)
University of Idaho (MFA)
University of Missouri (PhD)
Notable awards Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature (2001)

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]

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Career and education

Mabura 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

Mabura has received a number of awards including:

Selected works

Articles

Books

References

  1. "Previously Shortlisted". Caine Prize. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  2. Mabura, Lily (2004). On the slopes of Mt. Kenya (Thesis). OCLC   64666319.
  3. 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.
  4. "Who's Who in Humanities: Lily Mabura". humanities.academickeys.com. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  5. 1 2 "African Books Collective: Lily Mabura". www.africanbookscollective.com. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  6. "2007 - Lily Mabura". Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  7. "Past Fellows : The Frederick Douglass Institute : University of Rochester". www.sas.rochester.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  8. 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.