Tara June Winch with her mentor Wole Soyinka
Tara June Winch, who contributed the beautiful short story Summers Gone to our second issue, has won the literature category in the 2008/2009 Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative. As a protege Tara receives a year of one-on-one creative mentoring from Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist and essayist Wole Soyinka. Soyinka won the Nobel prize for literature in 1986.
Under the guidance of her new mentor Tara plans to finish writing her second novel. Her first was Swallow The Air .
Despite being a professional writer Tara donated Summers Gone to us and we at Kurungabaa wish her all the best for the upcoming year.
Read Summers Gone here.
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What an amazing person and writer. Next wave is for you Tara!
Tara has talent, gumption, radiance and luck on her side. As she put it, “I have arrived” and is bound to continue rising. She is widely loved, particularly by the boys. I hope she’s careful with those charms.
Respect, Tara, respect. Not everything’s as it seems.