Kiprop Kimutai

Writer

Kiprop Kimutai is a Kenyan writer and winner of the 2023 Graywolf African Fiction Prize for his debut novel The Freedom of Birds, which is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. His Bluesky is @tirobon.bsky.social.

Written by Kiprop Kimutai

Photo of three people smiling indoors, seated with arms around each other, with decorative items in the background.

Thicker than blood

When polio left me unable to walk, my parents put me in a disability centre. There, I met Mommy

Sauda Bashir, as told to Kiprop Kimutai