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Name
  
Karen King-Aribisala


Role
  
Novelist

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Books
  
The Hangman's Game, Kicking Tongues, Our Wife & Other Stories

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Karen Ann King-Aribisala (born Guyana) is a Nigerian novelist, and short story writer. Her collection of stories, Our Wife and Other Stories won the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book Africa, and her novel The Hangman's Game won 2008 Best Book Africa.

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She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Lagos. She won grants from the Ford Foundation, British Council, Goethe Institute, and the James Michener Foundation.

Works

  • Our Wife and Other Stories, Malthouse Press, 1990, ISBN 978-978-2601-59-9; Ottawa, Canada: Laurier Books, 2004, ISBN 978-1-55394-010-4
  • Kicking Tongues, Heinemann, 1998, ISBN 978-0-435-91200-0
  • The Hangman's Game, Peepal Tree, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84523-046-3

    • Anthologies

  • Toyin Adewale-Nduka, Omowunmi Segun, eds. (1996). Breaking the Silence: an anthology of short stories. WRITA, Women Writers of Nigeria. ISBN 978-978-32456-6-2. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
  • "Kunapipi". 17. Dangaroo Press. 1995. 

    • Reviews

  • "Karen King-Aribisala: The Hangman’s Game", Guyana Journal, Frank Birbalsingh, November, 2008
  • "A review of Karen King-Aribisala's The Hangman's Game", The Signifyin' Woman, April 19, 2008

    • References

    Karen King-Aribisala Wikipedia
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