Ngugi, Mukoma Wa

Mukoma Wa Ngugi is an assistant professor of English at Cornell University and the author of "Nairobi Heat, Black Star Nairobi, " and "Hurling Words at Consciousness." In 2014, "Buchkultur" named the German translation of "Nairobi Heat" the Crime Book of the Season. In 2009, Mukoma was short-listed for the Caine Prize for African Writing and in 2010 for the Penguin Prize for African Writing for his manuscript "The First and Second Books of Transition, " which became "Mrs. Shaw."