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Muthoni wa Gichuru, at the launch of her book Moon Scapes, Short Stories and Poetry, in 2017. She won the 2018 CODE BURT Prize for her book The Carving. PHOTO | MARTIN MUKANGU | NMG
By KARI MUTU
Muthoni wa Gichuru’s novel The Carving was the winner of the 2018 CODE Burt Prize for African Young Adult Literature Kenya.
The Carving is a story about a disabled boy with a talent for art who is forced to leave school and take up manual work when his mother falls ill.
