Karen Ann King-Aribisala is a Nigerian novelist who was born in Guyana. She was educated at the International School Ibadan in Nigeria, St. George’s British International School in Italy, and the London Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her various works include the novels, Kicking Tongues and The Hangman’s Game as well as the short story collections, Bitter Leafing Woman and Other Stories and Our Wife and Other Stories, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best First Book Africa. Her novel, The Hangman’s Game, won the 2008 Best Book Africa Award. She is also the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, British Council, Goethe Institute, James Michener Foundation, and MacDowell.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Karen King-Aribisala
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Victoria Island, Lagos, NIGERIA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2001
Studios
New Jersey
Karen King-Aribisala worked in the New Jersey studio.
The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…