Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o Says Prison Formed Him As A Writer

Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o Says Prison Formed Him As A Writer

When the the Nobel Prize for Literature was announced this week, the hopes of many in Kenya were dashed — again — when author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o did not win.

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Thiong’o is the country’s most celebrated poet and playwright. Decades ago, he was jailed in Kenya for writing a play in Gĩkũyũ, his mother tongue, rather than in English.

Thiong’o was forced to spend much of his life in exile, and today, he teaches at the University of California, Irvine and is the founding director of their International Center for Writing and Translation. His latest book, a novel in verse called The Perfect Nine, has just been published in the U.S. READ MORE

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