Photo: Marco Giugliarelli Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is a Kenyan writer. Her debut novel Dust (Knopf, Granta) was received to global acclaim, and was shortlisted for both the Folio and FT/Oppenheimer ...

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is a woman of (among many other things) agreeable contradictions. Standing at about 5'9, she is a tall, but not towering frame and oozes charm, good breeding and affable manners.

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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor The Macondo Book Society is a non-profit organization founded by journalist Anja Bengelstorff and celebrated novelist Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. In organizing such festivals ...

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust – a riveting and magic story of belonging, and not belonging, in Kenya. Seen from the perspectives of people of many colours, but who’s hearts all partly belong ...