Carey Baraka
Carey Baraka (born 1996) is a Kenyan writer of fiction and nonfiction. He was born in Kisumu, Kenya.[1] He studied philosophy at the University of Nairobi. In 2024, he was announced as one of the winners of the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship.[2]
Career
[edit]Baraka is known for his writing about African literary culture. In 2023, he wrote about Ngugi wa Thiong'o for The Guardian,[3] and he has also written about Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor[4], Kwani?[5], Isak Dinesen[6] and the history of Kampala as a literary capital in Africa.[7] In 2024, he wrote about the cult killings in Shakahola for The Economist's 1843 Magazine,[8] and was shortlisted for the Fetisov Award[9] and the True Story Award[10] for his work. He has also covered East Africa for Foreign Policy,[11] The New York Review of Books,[12] Financial Times,[13] and The New York Times.[14]
Awards
[edit]He has been shortlisted for the True Story Award,[10] and the Festisov Award,[9] and he has won the Miles Morland Scholarship,[2] a Macdowell Fellowship,[1] a fellowship from the University of Iowa's International Writing Program,[15] and received grants from the Pulitzer Center[16] and the Silvers Foundation.[17]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Carey Baraka - MacDowell Fellow in Literature". MacDowell. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ^ a b "Winners of the 2024 Morland Writing Scholarships - The Miles Morland Foundation". November 22, 2024.
- ^ Baraka, Carey (2023-06-13). "Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: three days with a giant of African literature". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ^ "Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor's weight of whispers—Carey Baraka considers Dust, The Dragonfly Sea and a novelist's mission to retell the 'vile things' of history". The Johannesburg Review of Books. 2020-03-05. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
- ^ "Intimations of an ending—Carey Baraka on the unspoken demise of Kwani?, and the death of a dream". The Johannesburg Review of Books. 2020-08-27. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
- ^ "The Original Karen". The Drift. 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ^ Baraka, Carey (2024-04-06). "A Golden Age in Africa's Literary History". The Republic. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ^ "Inside the Kenyan cult that starved itself to death". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ^ a b "Fetisov Journalism Awards". fjawards.com. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ^ a b "Winners 2025". True Story Award. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ^ Baraka, Carey (2025-06-25). "Carey Baraka". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ^ Baraka, Carey (2023-03-08). "The Political Education of William Ruto". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ^ Baraka, Carey (2023-08-26). "Whose gorillas are more famous?". Financial Times. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ^ Baraka, Carey (2024-07-14). "Opinion | Something Big Just Happened in Kenya". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ^ "Residency Participants | The International Writing Program | Graduate College | The University of Iowa". iwp.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ^ "Carey Baraka". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
- ^ "2022 Grant Recipients". The Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Retrieved 2025-06-21.
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