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Author: Khaya Ronkainen

Khaya Ronkainen writes poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction. This blog explores all things writing and living, aka personal history, cross-cultural experiences, nature, language, and the many ways people carry home within and across borders.
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On Coming Up for Air

Posted on 04/04/2021 by Khaya Ronkainen

It’s spring, a season of expectations and the morning smells fresh. Light conquers as the cold, dark and long Nordic winter finally relents. Even though the sur...

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For the Courageous

Posted on 03/07/2021 by Khaya Ronkainen

As I write this piece, I think of courage and determination. I think of stories I heard as a child about courageous women, who challenged the status quo, despit...

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The Catharsis of Tidying Up

Posted on 02/07/2021 by Khaya Ronkainen

There comes a day in every gadget owner’s life, when a latest version of an app declares your precious thing obsolete. Kindle recently proved incompatible with ...

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📖 //latest / DISTORTED IS THE VIEW/ a novel! 🇿🇦🇫🇮🌍

HELSINKI BOOK FAIR opens tomorrow, and I’ll be the HELSINKI BOOK FAIR opens tomorrow, and I’ll be there with fellow African authors living and writing in Finland, and beyond. 📚 💫💃🏾

Join us at stand 7f101, where @finnishafricansociety
is presenting a lineup of authors and their books. 

I’m personally grateful to FAS for the steady, often unseen work of creating space for African literature in the Nordics: the panels, the interviews, the book lists, the introductions to readers and institutions. Visibility like this doesn’t happen by accident. 🙏 

This year I’ll be bringing my latest work, Distorted Is The View, a family novel set in 1980s South Africa. If you’re an African literature lover, come by, pick up a copy and let’s chat. 😊 

See you at the fair!

📸 Author image by @saintfilmz

#HelsinkiBookFair2026 #AfricanLiterature #FinnishAfricanSociety #DistortedIsTheView
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Khaya Ronkainen's books on Goodreads
Seasons Defined Seasons Defined
reviews: 5
ratings: 6 (avg rating 4.83)

From the Depths of Darkness: A Collection of Dark Poetry Left in the Light From the Depths of Darkness: A Collection of Dark Poetry Left in the Light
reviews: 2
ratings: 2 (avg rating 5.00)

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