Awards & Winners

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is a Kenyan writer, who was named "Woman of the Year" by Eve Magazine in Kenya in 2004 for her contribution to the country's literature and arts. She won the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story "Weight of Whispers", which considers an aristocratic Rwandan refugee in Kenya. The story was originally published in Kwani?, the Kenyan literary magazine set up by Binyavanga Wainaina after he won the Caine Prize the previous year.

Awards by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Check all the awards nominated and won by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor.

2003


The Caine Prize for African Writing
Honored for : Weight of Whispers