John Kiriamiti
John Kiriamiti (born 14 February 1950) is a Kenyan former bank robber[1] turned writer.[2] Born in Thuita Village,[3] Kamacharia Location of Murang'a District in Central Kenya, he is the second of the nine children of Albert and Anne Wanjiru Kiriamiti, both primary school teachers in Murang'a.[3]
Background[]
Kiriamiti is best known as the writer of My Life in Crime[4] and My Life with a Criminal: Milly's Story, which were both a sensation with Kenyan youth in the late 1980s and '90s.
In the years subsequent to his release from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, he has also become a renowned philanthropist and social reformist rehabilitating street children and thieves in his rural Murang'a home. Besides writing novels, Kiriamiti owns and edits a newspaper, The Sharpener, which he established after the government ban on the Gikuyu version, Inooro, in 1995.[5]
Bibliography[]
Kiriamiti's books include:
- My Life in Crime – 1980
- My Life with a Criminal: Milly's Story- 1984
- Son of Fate – 1994
- The Sinister Trophy – 2000
- My Life in Prison – 2004
- The Abduction Squad
- City Carjackers
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References[]
- ^ "Kiriamiti’s dark past, struggle to tell story on criminal career". The Standard.
- ^ "African Books Collective: John Kiriamiti". africanbookscollective.com.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Biography Life and times of John Kiriamiti". Daily Nation.
- ^ "The Kiriamiti touch". Daily Nation.
- ^ "SPLA | John Kiriamiti". spla.pro.
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