Drue Heinz Literature Prize Presents: Mubanga Kalimamukwento
The Drue Heinz Prize is one of America’s major short story awards, with the winner receiving a $15,000 cash prize, publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press, and support in the nation-wide promotion of their book. This program presents the current winner, Mubanga Kalimamukwento, and her winning book of stories, Obligations to the Wounded. Mubanga will be in conversation with Dr. Tahirah Walker, host of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council’s Creative Hive.
In adventurous stories rooted in Zambian literary tradition, Obligations to the Wounded explores the expectations and burdens of womanhood in Zambia and for Zambian women living abroad. Mubanga’s collection converses with global social problems through the depiction of games, social media feuds, letters, and folklore to illustrate how girls and women manage religious expectations, migration, loss of language, death, intimate partner violence, and racial discrimination. Although the characters inhabiting these pages are separated geographically and by life stage, their shared burdens, culture, and homeland inextricably link them together in struggle and triumph.
You can purchase your copy of Mubanga’s book, Obligations to the Wounded, at City of Asylum Bookstore.
This program is presented in partnership with University of Pittsburgh Press.
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