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Sister Mariella Gable Series
2011 Winner
One Day I Will Write About This Place
A Memoir
Binyavanga Wainaina
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Binyavanga Wainaina is a Bard Fellow and the Director of the Chinua Achebe Center for African Literature and Languages at Bard College. He is from Kenya and lives in New York.
Wainaina is an author and journalist. He received the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2002, and since then, many writers featured in the East African literary magazine Kwani? that he founded have received the Caine Prize as well. In 2003, the Kenya Publisher's Association presented him with an award for his services to Kenyan Literature.
Wainaina's first novel One Day I Will Write About This Place was published by Graywolf Press.
Wednesday, March 28, 7:30 p.m.
Gorecki A and B, CSB
About the Award
Sister Mariella Gable's spirit inspires the Literary Arts Institute and all of its programs. Dante scholar, poet, editor, writer, champion of new fiction, the late Sister Mariella Gable was an outstanding English professor who taught at the College of Saint Benedict from 1928-1973. In the Spring of 1984, she produced an essay on the first fifty years of CSB history, "In League with the Future". She guided many students into lives informed by literature and played an important role in the early careers of such writers as Flannery O'Connor, Betty Wahl, and J.F. Powers. An essay about Sister Mariella and her writings was written by Sister Nancy Hynes for the introduction to Mariella's book, The Literature of Spiritual Values and Catholic Fiction.
The Sister Mariella Gable Award is given each year by the College of Saint Benedict for an important work of literature published by Graywolf Press. Graywolf Press, recently described by Ploughshares magazine as, "arguably the best small press in the country," and the Literary Arts Institute have formed an innovative collaboration to explore new ways of promoting the literary arts on campus, to audiences in the surrounding area, and in the Twin Cities. The 2009 winner of the Sister Mariella Gable Prize is The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song by Ellen Bryant Voigt. Past winners include All of it Singing by Linda Gregg, Duende by Tracy K. Smith, the trilogy, Variation on the Theme of an African Dictatorship by Nurruddin Farah, The Collected Poems of Jane Kenyon by Jane Kenyon, The Weatherman by Clint McCown, One Vacant Chairby Joe Coomer, The House on Eccles Road by Judith Kitchen, and Loverboy by Victoria Redel, which was made into a movie by Kevin Bacon in 2005.