{"id":1080,"date":"2016-06-14T16:24:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/?post_type=stsp_author&#038;p=1080"},"modified":"2020-11-16T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T12:44:13","slug":"kenneth-binyavanga-wainaina","status":"publish","type":"eventkrake_artist","link":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/en\/artist\/kenneth-binyavanga-wainaina\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina\u00a0(born in 1971) is a Kenyan author and journalist. In April 2014, <em>TIME Magazine<\/em> included Wainaina in its annual\u00a0TIME\u00a0100\u00a0as one of the &#8220;most influential people in the world.&#8221; In July 2002 he won the\u00a0<em>Caine Prize for African Writing<\/em> for his short story &#8220;Discovering Home&#8221;. He is the founding editor of <em>Kwani?<\/em>, the first literary magazine in East Africa since <em>Transition Magazine<\/em>. Since its founding, <em>Kwani?<\/em> has become an important source of new writing from Africa; several writers for the magazine have been nominated for the <em>Caine Prize<\/em> and have subsequently won it. Wainaina&#8217;s debut book, a memoir entitled &#8220;One Day I Will Write About This Place&#8221;, was published in 2011. In January 2014, in response to a wave of anti-gay laws passed in Africa, Wainaina publicly announced that he was gay, first writing a short story that he described as a &#8220;lost chapter&#8221; of his 2011 memoir entitled &#8220;I am a Homosexual, Mum&#8221;, and then tweeting, &#8220;I am, for anybody confused or in doubt, a homosexual. Gay, and quite happy.&#8221; 2016 he was a participant in the field of literature of the Berlin Artist program from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). On 21 May 2019, he died of the consequences of his AIDS disease in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bibliography\">One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir. Autobiography. Graywolf Press, 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bibliography\">Eines Tages werde ich \u00fcber diesen Ort schreiben. Erinnerungen. Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina\u00a0(born in 1971) is a Kenyan author and journalist. In April 2014, TIME Magazine included Wainaina in its annual\u00a0TIME\u00a0100\u00a0as one of the &#8220;most influential people in the world.&#8221; In July 2002 he won the\u00a0Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story &#8220;Discovering Home&#8221;. 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