Karen King-Aribisala

Karen King-Aribisala, is a Professor of English at the Department of English, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria. Her first published work, Our Wife and other Stories, published by Malthouse, won the Best First Book prize in the Commonwealth Prize for Literature (African Region)(1990/91); the second work, Kicking Tongues, was published by Heinemann, African Writers Series; and her novel The Hangman's Game won the Best Book Prize (African Region) in the Commonwealth Prize for Literature; which was re-published by Penguin South Africa, short listed for the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award and for the Guyana Prize for Literature. Some of her stories and poems have also been published in such journals as Wasafiri, Research in African Literature, Presence Africaine and The Griot

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