Reading Weeks; last day
Author visit
Elieshi Lema, author and publisher from Tanzania, Elieshi Lema’s first language is Chaga, but she writes children’s books in Swahili and literature for adults in English.
Ms. Lema, a tireless advocate for girls’ and women’s rights, spoke about the challenges that girls and women face in Tanzania. She emphasized the importance of gender equality in advancing society and the role that gender equality education plays in building self-confidence in young women.
Elieshi Lema's first novel Parched Earth - A Love Story came out in 2001, and launched in Swedish as Bränd jord in September 2004. In 2002 the book received an honourable mention by the prestigious NOMA award committee, who called it "perhaps the first feminist Tanzanian novel in English.
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The author of Reading weeks: Maria Aminoff
Maria was born in October 1974 in Gothenburg in Sweden, where she grew up with her younger twin brothers. As a teenager she met her current husband. Maria's education was broad and varied and she studied both languages and scientific subjects whilst at school opting to study for a law degree at university. On completing her degree she was employed by a Swedish law firm for ten years before, in 2009, deciding to go in for writing full time.
Besides reading and writing, spending time with family and friends, Maria loves to travel and explore the world. The experiences she makes, she shares with her readers by writing them down. She has been to Italy, Germany and Denmark countless times, has studied on Iceland during 1998 and lived in the United Kingdom for three and a half years when her children were young.