Alieu Bundu

Alieu Bundu fell in love with storytelling at a very tender age. It was his maternal grandmother who infused that love in him. When he discovered books later in school, he knew at once that writing was what he was going to do. Alieu Bundu writes and sings from Sierra Leone. His story, Kwerekwere, was published by the online magazine Lolwe, and in December 2021 Nipe Story made it into a podcast; it was nominated for the 2022 Caine Prize for African Writing. He was the runner-up for the April 2014 Africa Book Club Short Reads Competition and was shortlisted for the 2016 Writivism Short Story Competition. His epistolary novel The Brilliance of a Million Suns made the shortlist for the inaugural Iska Book Prize.