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One Day I Will Write About This Placeโ, the debut novel of award-winning Kenyan writer, Binyavanga Wainaina, has made the 2011 summer reading list of Oprahโs Book Club.
Renowned talk show hostess, Oprah Winfrey, established the book discussion club where a new book is read every week since 1996. Seventy books have so far been recommended by the club since its inception.
The 272-page-novel released this year by Graywolf Press was described on Oprahโs blog as โA boyโs joyous and politically uncertain childhood in Kenya, his travels around the globe as a full-grown man – and then all the way back to Kenya to learn about the meaning of home.โ
Wainaina, a short story writer and founding editor of โKwani?โ a literary magazine in East Africa, won the Caine Prize in 2002 with his story, โDiscovering Homeโ.
The writer, who writes for โVanity Fairโ and โThe New York Timesโ, is a facilitator at the Farafina Trust Creative Writersโ Workshop driven by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The Kenyan was in town for this yearโs edition which closed with a colourful ceremony on July 2 at Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The selection of Wainainaโs debut novel follows that of the Nigerian Jesuit priest, Uwem Akpan, whose collection of short stories, โSay You Are One of Themโ, made Oprahโs reading list in 2009.
Like other books that have made the list, it is expected that the demand for โOne Day I Will Write About This Placeโ will skyrocket in the coming days.
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Oprah Winfrey Picks Book By Kenyan Author