Benjamin Kwakye

BENJAMIN KWAKYE was born in Accra, Ghana. He is the winner of two Commonwealth Prize for Literature Book Awards for his novels The Clothes of Nakedness (Heinemann, 1998) and The Sun by Night (Africa World Press, 2005). Kwakye is also the author of the novella collection, Eyes of the Slain Woman (Anaphora Literary Press, 2011), and the short story collection, The Executioner's Confession (Cissus World Press, 2015). His other works include three novels, The Other Crucifix (Ayebia Clarke, 2010),...See more

BENJAMIN KWAKYE was born in Accra, Ghana. He is the winner of two Commonwealth Prize for Literature Book Awards for his novels The Clothes of Nakedness (Heinemann, 1998) and The Sun by Night (Africa World Press, 2005). Kwakye is also the author of the novella collection, Eyes of the Slain Woman (Anaphora Literary Press, 2011), and the short story collection, The Executioner's Confession (Cissus World Press, 2015). His other works include three novels, The Other Crucifix (Ayebia Clarke, 2010), Legacy of Phantoms (Africa World Press, 2015) and The Three Books of Shama (Cissus World Press, 2016), and an epic poem, Scrolls of the Living Night (Cissus World Press, 2015). Kwakye's other literary awards include the 2011 IPPY Gold Award for Adult Multicultural Fiction. He attended Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. He is the director of The Africa Education Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting science education in Africa. Kwakye lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his family (Margaret, Nana, Jeede, and Kristodia). See less