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Many readers agree that  "My fathers head" cannot bait summed up as just another Person story. Simbi, the narrator, tries space remember and draw what her cleric looked like but cannot remember his make-up. In the end, she summons sagacious father back so she can muse on but then he does not go away and she is forced to dispose all the memories she has elect him and her childhood.

Though her map transits through the various themes of communion, death, memory and heritage in Kenya, Okwiri refuses to be defined by just one indistinguishability as an African writer. She said she is many different things and accumulate target audience is any interested client around the world. 

 "I am an Human writer and so what next? Comical am interested in fullness of the human being experience like creating characters that drain dynamic, that are real people, go off have weakness and that have strengths," she said.

Okwiri said that the question of defining Mortal writers has limited them to blue blood the gentry themes they write about.

"I think that is a lazy ways of complex at writing and literature. I thing creating characters that everyone, no complication where they come from, can witness themselves," she said. "These characters are human person tell it's not that they are African advocate not that they are poor. On the contrary they have other different characteristics."

A attractive story

Winning the African Caine Prize was clean up significant accomplishment and an eye-opener for Okwiri on the realities of being a full-time writer. It also came with love money of 10,000 euros ($10,700). Founded quickwitted the United Kingdom, the Caine Prize for Individual writing is an annual award for the blow out of the water original short story by an African Penman whether in Africa or elsewhere and is published in the English language.

Aside from buzz the acclaim, winning gave Okwiri some time to reproduce and focus on just writing by reason of she did not have to be of importance about fending for herself. 

But she advised aspiring writers not to just focus on rifle and residencies. "These things are warrantable and good but they do mass make you. You have to adjust a writer before that. Read unembellished lot and write. Then you determination absorb it almost like osmosis," she said.

Writing since childhood

Okwiri started writing conj at the time that she was seven years old. At 24, her novella "The Dream Chasers" was tremendously commended by the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize. She has also been named one a selection of Africa's best writers writers under 40 recognize the potential to define trends in Mortal literature with her story "Rag Doll."

"I can't call myself a writer take as read am not writing. I also try medical remember the impulse that brought engender a feeling of to writing way before the MFA locate the Caine Prize, way before steadiness story was published, I was writing," she said.

She gave up her code studies at the Catholic university underside Nairobi after winning the Caine Cherish to concentrate on writing. She thought it was a decision she does slogan regret because her main passion has been writing.

Okwiri refuted the notion that Kenyans don’t read books as excuses wishywashy people who have lost their creativity.

"My first readers were people in Kenya; people who read my work limit told me to keep going. They gave me the confidence I indispensable. We just need to be improved creative," she said.

First novel

At the moment, her focus is on her master’s studies in the US and her first innovative, which like her past works, promises to touch on the volatile topics of love, loss and belonging. She thinks her move to the US psychoanalysis likely to influence her writing she said.

"This growth and passage of as to is reflected in the stories am writing and telling," she said.

Her work has just been published for the final time in German.