Stanley Gazemba
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Stanley Gazemba

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Stanley Gazemba is the author of the novel The Stone Hills of Maragoli, recipient of the Jomo Kenyatta Prize, which is published in the U.S. as Forbidden Fruit by The Mantle of New York City. His collection of short stories, Dog Meat Samosa, will be published by Regal House Press in 2019. His other novels include Khama (short-listed for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize) and Callused Hands (Nsemia). His novel, Ghettoboy, was shortlisted for the Kwani? Manuscript Prize, but it is still unpublished. He has also published eight children’s books entitled Shaka Zulu-Warrior King, Poko and the Jet, Poko at the Koras, The Herds boy and the Princess, Tobi and the Street boy, Ant’s Clay castle, A Scare in the Village (recipient of the Jomo Kenyatta Prize) and Grandmother’s Winning Smile (long-listed for the Macmillan Prize). His fiction has appeared in ‘A’ is for Ancestors, a collection of short stories from the Caine Prize (Jacana); The Literary Review-Africa Calling ( Fairleigh Dickinson University); Man of the House and other new Short Stories from Kenya (CCC Press); Crossing Borders online magazine; Africa’39: New Writing From Africa South of the Sahara (Bloomsbury); World Literature Today (University of Oklahoma); among other publications. He is a journalist by training, and has written for Msanii magazine, Sunday Nation, Saturday Nation, The New York Times and The East African. He was International Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2007. He lives in Nairobi and currently works as editor at Ketebul Music.
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