KINGWA KAMENCU

 

Bio
Kingwa Kamencu was born on 31st October 1983 Nairobi, Kenya. She is a journalist writing for the Media Institute's magazine- Expression Today (ET) and a contributor with 'The Standard' newspaper.

Book:
To Grasp at a Star

Awards won :
-1st prize youth fiction category in the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for literature 2007
- 2nd runners up Wahome Mutahi Prize for literature 2006
- 2nd prize National Book Development Council award 2003
         

Other works:
Short stories
-A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do
-A dangerous state of mind
-Desperate means to an end
-Good deed of the day
-Muli's great day
-The white lace handkerchief
-The secret cave
-The end of a golden child
-How Sandra used her focus

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