Kyuka Lilymjok

Kyuka Lilymjok is the author of The Death of Eternity, The Butcher’s Wife, Bivan’s House, Sieged, Hope in Anarchy, The Village Tradesman, The Lord Mammon among other fictional works. The imagination of this author takes the reader out of his material existence to the spiritual world of ideas where life bears sizzling colors that captivate and songs of both modernity and antiquity that enchant. His imagination is never wasted. Whenever English language the medium of his writing proves too poor to communicate his imagination, he creates thingamajigs to do so. Mainly a writer of prose, we find poetry, drama and philosophy sounding through the works of this writer of great genius. There is poetry in his elegant expression, drama in his sassy dialogues and philosophy in the timeless expressions of his characters. A striking feature of this writer lies in how he stretches literary expressions to their elastic limits and his exceptional use of personification. Under his pen, trees talk and grasses walk. His works might take the head to write, they require only the heart to read. For this writer, every sentence carries a magnet that holds the interest of the reader to the next.