Taban Lo Liyong

[Zadignose]

I don't know whether to add this, or where to add it... living and probably still publishing, so maybe knot really buboes... perhaps someone else will want to add him later to buried if suitable and if they are interested in taking up the challenge.

Taban Lo Liyong of East Africa (born in Sudan, lived most of his life in Uganda, where I assume he was a citizen, migrated to Kenya, where he felt somewhat ostracized...) has precious few ratings.

Throwing down the gauntlet, he says of himself that he's one of the best essayists in the world, and as for his own novel published in 1978, Meditations of Taban Lo Liyong, he proclaims it "among the world’s best 50 post-modernist novels." But I know nothing of this post-modernism he refers to.

In the essay in which he toots his own horn, Taban Lo Liyong also lambastes his Kenyan academic peers, saying "I have been modest too long among non-readers, non-experts on literature and writers of students’ guides for secondary schools who call themselves professors."

He's a living writer, but arguably buried for the over forty years he's been in print.

[Nathan "N.R."]

Quite simply conventionally BURIED. Frequently we'll find biological entities still breathing while the literary relation is six feet under. In this case the only Q is whether to take Lo or Liyong as surname for alphabeticalizational purposes.....

[Zadignose]

All right cool, now to see if he delivers on his promise... especially in fiction.