Description:
The Witness of Nina Mvungi is a collection of seven stories by contemporary Swahili writer Esther Karin Mngodo translated by the award winning ranslator from the Swahili, Jay Boss Rubin. It is the first full-length book of fiction by award-winning contemporary Tanzanian author Esther Karin Mngodo.
Brief description:
Esther Karin Mngodo was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1986. Bilingual in Swahili and English, she works across genres and languages as a fiction writer, poet, translator, journalist, editor and feminist publisher. In 2014, Mngodo was the winner of the inaugural Ebrahim Hussein Poetry Prize, one of Tanzania's major literary awards. Her prose writing has been featured in The Goddess of Mtwara and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2017, Imbiza Journal, The Citizen, The Chanzo and other publications. She is the author of the poetry collection Jinsi ya Kurudi Nyumbani (How to Return Home), and the founder and publisher of UMBU, an online literary journal for women who write in Swahili. Esther is also an Open Society Fellow. She lives in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with her daughter, Jasmine.