Nigeria’s rave of the moment,
Kiss Daniels is scheduled to perform at this year’s Literary Evening
as the 2015 edition of the Creative Writing Workshop sponsored by Nigerian
Breweries and organised by Farafina Trust comes to a close this Friday, June 26
2015 at the Oriental Hotel, Lagos.
The workshop facilitated by
Chimamanda Adichie, Nigeria’s celebrated international writer and Creative
Director of Farafina Trust brings together great writers from Nigeria and
overseas in an evening of book reading, conversation and fun.
At the event, scheduled to
kick off at 5.00pm, writers such as Kenya’s Binyavanga Wainaina and Norwegian
Aslak Sire Myhre will lead the discussion with Adichie. Binyavanga Wainaina in
2002 won the Caine Prize for his short story “Discovering Home”.
He is the founding Editor of
Kwani, the first literary magazine in East Africa since Transition Magazine. He
is also a Bard Fellow and the director of the Chinua Achebe Center for African
Literature and Languages at Bard College. In 2014, Time Magazine included
Wainaina in its annual TIME 100 as one of the “Most Influential People in the
World.”
Aslak Sira Myhre is a
Norwegian culture administrator. He is
currently director of the Oslo House of Literature which
opened in 2007, Europe’s largest with more than 250,000 visits annually. Other
writers who have participated in the workshop and Literary Evening include
Jeffery Renard Allen, Robert Spillman, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Chika Ike.
The Literary Evening
traditionally brings to a close the annual 10 day Creative Writing workshop
aimed at helping Nigerian writers improve their craft as well as encourage
budding writers embrace new and refreshing perspectives in the art of
storytelling. The workshop which began in 2009 takes the form of a class where
participants are assigned a wide range of reading exercises, as well as daily
writing exercises. The workshop has trained over 100 participants since its
inception. According to the organisers, the event which is open to the public,
promises to be a thrilling experience for guests.
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