Kayo Chingonyi – författare

Brought to you by Penguin.*Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2018**Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2018*Translating as ''initiation'', kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man. The poems of Kayo Chingonyi''s remarkable debut explore this passage: between two worlds, ancestral and contemporary; between the living and the dead; between the gulf of who he is and how he is perceived.Underpinned by a love of music, language and literature, here is a powerful exploration of race, identity and masculinity, celebrating what it means to be British and not British, all at once.*Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize; Seamus Heaney Centre First Poetry Collection Prize; Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry; Roehampton Poetry Prize; Jhalak Prize 2018*''A brilliant debut - a tender, nostalgic and, at times, darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief. A gorgeous and necessary collection from one of my favourite writers'' Warsan Shire© Kayo Chingonyi 2017 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Brought to you by Penguin.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION*The moving, expansive, and dazzling second collection from award-winning poet Kayo ChingonyiKayo Chingonyi''s remarkable second collection follows the course of a ''blood condition'' as it finds its way to deeply personal grounds. From the banks of the Zambezi river to London and Leeds, these poems speak to how distance and time, nations and history, can collapse within a body.With astonishing lyricism and musicality, this is a story of multiple inheritances -- of grief and survival, renewal and the painful process of letting go -- and a hymn to the people and places that run in our blood.''A Blood Condition is one of the most arresting and beautiful set of poems of this or any year'' Guardian, Books of the Year 2021''A thing of beauty. It''s a pleasure to read such a sure and strident second outing from one of our most celebrated young poets'' Diana Evans''An elegantly spare, cathartic and poignant but never indulgent collection that invites repeated reading'' Telegraph''The musicality and the hard reason is just so fresh, you feel altered by it'' Andrew O''Hagan© Kayo Chingonyi 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Kumukanda är den rit en pojke i Luvalestammen måste genomgå för att betraktas som man. Med 2017 års mest uppmärksammade brittiska debut utforskar Kayo Chingonyi genom ett fascinerande förhållningssätt till språk, musik och litteratur identitet, rasifiering och maskulinitet och övergången mellan två olika världar: det historiska arvet och samtiden, mellan levande och döda, mellan vem han är och vem han förväntas vara.

Kayo Chingonyi är född 1987 i Zambia och kom som sexåring till England. I sin ömsinta debut skildrar han uppväxtens krav och lyckas han lika storartat fånga såväl sorgen över att ha förträngt sitt modersmål som extasen i Londons klubbvärld.