David Nandi Odhiambo

David Nandi Odhiambo (born June 24, 1965), also known as D. Nandi Odhiambo is an African-Canadian novelist and writer of Luo and Luhya descent.[1] He was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1977.[2] He has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a B.A. in Classics from McGill University. In 2019 he was one of two recipients of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, considered among the most prestigious literary honors bestowed in Hawaiʻi.[3] As of fall 2019, he is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi - West Oʻahu.[4][5]

Odhiambo has published four novels: diss/ed banded nation in 1998, Kipligat's Chance in 2003, and The Reverend's Apprentice, Volume I in 2008, and Smells like Stars in 2018.[6]

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