Hichens, Joanne

Lauri Kubuitsile is a full-time writer living in Botswana. She has had published three children's books, two detective novellas, and three collections of short stories for children, co-written with two other Batswana writers. She was the 2007 winner of the BTA/Anglo Platinum Short Story Contest and the recipient of the Botswana Ministry of Youth and Culture's Orange Botswerere Award for Creative Writing in the same year. In 2009 she won the Baobab Literary Prize (USA) in the junior category.