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Mubanga Kalimamukwento
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2019
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🇿🇲 Zambia
Mubanga Kalimamukwento is a Zambian writer, known for her novel The Mourning Bird, which focuses on Zambia's AIDS crisis, and Obligations to the Wounded, her thematically linked collection of short stories centring the lives of Zambian women and girls. The Mourning Bird was awarded the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award in 2018/2019. In 2024, she became the first African writer to win the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature. In 2025, Obilgations to the Wounded won a Minnesota Book Award in the Novel & Short Story category and was longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, an award focused on women writers.
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