# East African literary fiction

Writers include Nuruddin Farah, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Mia Couto, Moses Isegawa, Abdulrazak Gurnah and others. Set in or written from Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania and others. First published 1986 to 2014.

## Books

- [Maps](https://africantales.net/books/maps), Nuruddin Farah, Somalia, 1986
- [Nervous Conditions](https://africantales.net/books/nervous-conditions), Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe, 1988
- [Sleepwalking Land](https://africantales.net/books/sleepwalking-land), Mia Couto, Mozambique, 1992
- [Abyssinian Chronicles](https://africantales.net/books/abyssinian-chronicles), Moses Isegawa, Uganda, 1998
- [By the Sea](https://africantales.net/books/by-the-sea), Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania, 2001
- [The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears](https://africantales.net/books/the-beautiful-things-that-heaven-bears), Dinaw Mengestu, Ethiopia, 2007
- [Our Lady of the Nile](https://africantales.net/books/our-lady-of-the-nile), Scholastique Mukasonga, Rwanda, 2012
- [We Need New Names](https://africantales.net/books/we-need-new-names), NoViolet Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 2013
- [Dust](https://africantales.net/books/dust), Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Kenya, 2014

## See also

- [East African literature](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa)
- [East African classics](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa/classic)
- [East African historical fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa/historical-fiction)
- [African literary fiction](https://africantales.net/genres/literary-fiction)
- [East African war fiction](https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa/war-fiction)

Source: https://africantales.net/regions/east-africa/literary-fiction