JC Niala
Biography:
JC Niala is a playwright, poet and nature writer who lives, works and plays in Kenya and the U.K.
Her work expresses her fascination with the many different ways there are of being in the world. Her plays reflect the African reality of living with and between several languages.
Her play The Strong Room was shortlisted by Wole Soyinka in BBC Africa Performance 2010. Unsettled was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Prize in 2020 and Through the Mill Prize in 2021.
Her debut nature writing book A Loveliness of Ladybirds was shortlisted for Canongate’s Nan Shepherd Prize in 2019. An extract from the book Fieldnotes from an African anthropologist was awarded the Frank Allen Bullock Creative Writing Prize by St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford in 2020. A Loveliness of Ladybirds will be published by Little Toller Books in 2022.
PIP Credits: Playwright - Unsettled
