Mubanga Kalimamukwento

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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]

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