Enock Matundura
Translator
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Swahili
Enock Matundura teaches Kiswahili literature at Chuka University, Kenya. He is a translator and creative writer, mostly of Kiswahili children’s literature and short stories. His book Sitaki Iwe Siri [It shouldn’t be a secret, Longhorn, 2008] was a runner-up for the 2009 Text Book Centre Jomo Kenyatta Literature Prize. He translated the Moses Series by renowned young adult literature writer Barbrara Kimenye into Kiswahili, all published by Oxford University Press. Matundura also runs a weekly column in Taifa Leo, the only Kiswahili newspaper in Kenya, and has contributed articles to the Saturday Nation and Sunday Nation.