Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Kenyan writer

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (born in 1968) is a Kenyan writer who is the author of novels, short stories and essays. She won the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story "Weight of Whispers".

Yvonne Owuor in 2019

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  • “There are presumptions, in the world as it is now framed, of who the worthy victim is and who merits the power of full witness,”
  • We know, nyara, that to name the unnamable is a curse [...] Even if you plant another story into silence, see, the buried thing returns to ask for its blood from the living.

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