Coming Out of Isolation: Poems on Resilience, Triumph and Hope

ISBN-13: 9783947911738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 404 str.

Christopher Okemwa

O autorze

Christopher Okemwa is a literature lecturer at Kisii University, Kenya. He has a Ph.D. in performance poetry from Moi University, Kenya. He is the founder and current director of Kenya's Kistrech International Poetry Festival. His novella, Sabina and the Mystery of the Ogre, won the Canadian Burt Award for African Literature in 2015. He has written eight books of poetry and has been translated into Armenian, Chinese, Greek, Norwegian, Finnish, Hungarian, Arabic, Polish, Chinese, Nepalese, Turkish, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, and Serbian. He has also translated four literary works of international poets from English to Swahili. He is the editor of Musings During a Time of Pandemic: A World Anthology of Poems on COVID-19 and I Can't Breathe: A Poetic Anthology of Social Justice, both of which feature over 550 international poets and are 1200-plus pages. He is the author of ten folktales of the Abagusii people of Kenya, three children's storybooks, one play, two novels, and four oral literature textbooks.