Lily Mabura

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]

Career and education

Mabura earned a PhD in Engĺish from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a Master's in 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:

  • Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature, Children's Winner 2001 for her book, Ali, the Little Sultan[5]
  • Kenya's National Book Week Literary Award for The Pretoria Conspiracy in 2001[5]
  • Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers in 2007[6]
  • University of Rochester's Frederick Douglass Fellowship in 2008-2009[7]

Selected works

Articles
  • Mabura, Lily (2008). "Breaking Gods: an African postcolonial Gothic reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'Purple Hibiscus' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun'". Research in African Literatures. 39 (1): 203–222. doi:10.2979/RAL.2008.39.1.203. OCLC 775273497.[8]
  • Mabura, Lily G. N. (2010). "Black Women Walking Zimbabwe: Refuge and Prospect in the Landscapes of Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Its Sequel, The Book of Not". Research in African Literatures. 41 (3): 88–111. doi:10.2979/ral.2010.41.3.88. JSTOR 10.2979/ral.2010.41.3.88. S2CID 154648515.
  • Mabura, Lily G. N. (2012-08-26). "Teaching Leila Aboulela in the context of other authors across cultures: creative writing, the Third Culture Kid phenomenon and Africana womanism". Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives. 9 (2). doi:10.18538/lthe.v9.n2.97. ISSN 2077-5504.
  • Mabura, Lily; Husni, Ronak (2019-04-01). "Polemics of Love and the Family in A New Day in Old Sana'a". Meridians. 18 (1): 161–182. doi:10.1215/15366936-7297191. ISSN 1547-8424. S2CID 187481256.

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. "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. ISSN 1940-6231.
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