In conversation with Ketu H. Katrak, professor in the Department of Drama at the University of California, Irvine and author of the forthcoming book Jay Pather, Performance, and Spatial Politics in South Africa
Renowned Kenyan scholar and writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is the author of the novels A Grain of Wheat; Do not cry, my child; and Petals of Blood, among several other works of fiction, memoirs, children's books and essays. Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine, he has received 12 honorary doctorates, been nominated for the Man Booker Prize and is tipped every year to win the Nobel Prize in literature. In The Perfect Nine, Thiong'o tells a "meandering tale" of the origin of the Gĩkũyũ people of Kenya "as an epic poem rivaling the Iliad in body count and surpassing it in fantasy" (New Yorker ).
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