MN Book Award Series: Novel & Short Story Winner Mubanga Kalimamukwento

MN Book Award Series: Fiction Winner Mubanga Kalimamukwento

Thursday, June 5, 2025, 7 p.m.
East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier Street, Saint Paul, MN 55106

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Join the East Side Freedom Library as we welcome the 2025 winner of the Minnesota Book Award in the Novel & Short Story category, Mubanga Kalimamukwento. Acclaimed by many critics for her the brilliant poetics of her astonishing prose, Mubanga has spun her words into a litany of awards and recognition. She will be at ESFL on June 5 to read from her Minnesota top honors work Obligations to the Wounded and other works.

Mubanga Kalimamukwento was born in Lusaka, Zambia. Her creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in adda, Aster(ix), Contemporary Verse 2, Kweli, Overland, The Ex-Puritan, Menelique, on Netflix, and elsewhere, and her editorial work can be found or is forthcoming in Shenandoah, the Water~Stone Review, Doek! Literary Magazine and Safundi. She founded Ubwali Literary Magazine and co-founded the Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop. When she’s not writing or editing, Mubanga serves as a Mentor at the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. She is a PhD student in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota (Twin-Cities), where she is also an Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) Scholar. Mubanga lives in Minnesota with her husband and their two children.

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