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 Master's in Fine Arts degree from University of Idaho. Her 2004 thesis was titled On the Slopes of Mt. Kenya.[2] She is and author and academic, having taught at 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. [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.
  • 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). ISSN 2077-5504.

Books

  • Mabura, Lily (1999). Ali, the Little Suntan. Focus Publications. ISBN 9789966882349.
  • Mabura, Lily (2000). The Pretoria Conspiracy. Focus Books. ISBN 9789966882462.
  • Mabura, Lily; Wamiru, Celestine M (2002). Seth the silly gorilla. Nairobi: Phoenix Publishers. ISBN 9966470360.
  • Mabura, Lily (2005). Saleh Kanta and the Cavaliers. Phoenix Publishers. ISBN 9789966470195.
  • Mabura, Lily (2012). How Shall We Kill the Bishop and Other Stories. Pearson Education/Heinemann. ISBN 9780435075415.
  • Mabura, Lily; Mugubi, John (2017). The Warm Heart of Africa and Other Stories. Longhorn Publishers (Kenya) Limited. ISBN 9789966315748.

References

  1. ↑ "Previously Shortlisted". Caine Prize. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  2. ↑ Mabura, Lily (2004). On the slopes of Mt. Kenya (Thesis).
  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. ISSN 1940-6231.
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