Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is an award-winning writer born in 1968. In 2003, her short story, Weight of Whispers which was about a Rwandan aristocrat who settled in Kenya after the 1994 genocide really outlined the intricate political and social chaos that followed the genocide.
The short story won the Caine Prize for African Writing and was published worldwide in many publications.
For her immense contribution to Kenya’s literary world and arts, she was named ‘Woman of the Year’ in 2004 by Eve Magazine in Kenya. In 2015, her book Dust, on the twentieth century violence in Kenya earned her the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature.
This cultural activist and conservationist’s story, The Knife Grinder’s Tale, was adapted for a film in 2007.
