Idza Luhumyo

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Idza Luhumyo (born 1993) is a Kenyan short story writer, whose work explores Kenyan coastal identities. In July 2020, Luhumyo was announced as the inaugural recipient of the Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award.[1] She was the winner of the 2021 Short Story Day Africa Prize.[2]

Life[]

Idza Luhumyo was born in Mombasa, Kenya, and holds a law degree from Nairobi University. She lives between Kilifi and Nairobi, and works as a screenwriter and copywriter.[3][4] On 21 July 2020 it was announced that she was the first recipient of a scholarship enabled by the publication by Myriad Editions of Margaret Busby's 1919 anthology New Daughters of Africa and that Luhumyo would start postgraduate studies at SOAS University of London in autumn 2020, with accommodation provided by International Students House.[5][6] Discussing her course, Luhumyo said: "My favourite thing about the MA Comparative Literature program is its interdisciplinarity. Sometimes I like to think of it as 'literature-without-borders meets critical theory,' which is just perfect."[7]

Luhumyo's work has been published by Popula,[8] Jalada Africa, The Writivism Anthology, Baphash Literary & Arts Quarterly, MaThoko's Books, Gordon Square Review, Amsterdam's ZAM Magazine, Short Story Day Africa, the New Internationalist, The Dark and African Arguments.[9][10] Her work has been shortlisted for the Short Story Day Africa Prize, the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship, and the Gerald Kraak Award.[10] She won the Short Story Day Africa Prize 2021 with her story "Five Years Next Sunday".[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "Idza Luhumyo Wins Inaugural Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award", Brittle Paper, 3 August 2020. Accessed 6 August 2020.
  2. ^ Ibeh, Chukwuebuka (21 June 2021). "3 Winners Emerge for the 2020/21 Short Story Day Africa Prize". Brittle Paper.
  3. ^ AWT Team (22 July 2020). "First recipient of The Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa announced". African Writers Trust. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  4. ^ "The Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award", SOAS.
  5. ^ James Murua, "Idza Luhumyo is inaugural Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award recipient", James Murua's Literary Blog, 21 July 2020.
  6. ^ Duno Kogbara, "New daughters of Africa", Vanguard, 24 July 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  7. ^ a b Mountford, Angharad (30 June 2021). "SOAS student wins prestigious short story competition". SOAS, University of London. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  8. ^ Luhumyo, Idza (26 August 2019). "Palimpsest". Popula. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  9. ^ Luhumyo, Idza. "On Full Moon Nights". The Dark. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  10. ^ a b Idza Luhumyo, "How I fell in, out, and back in love with the leso", African Arguments, 14 October 2019.

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