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Standard Group is recognized as a leading multi-media house in Kenya with a key
influence in matters of national and international interest.
A former editor with The Standard, Peter Kimani is among six authors nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the biggest award for black writers in the United States.
The award is in honour of Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, two pioneering African-American writers who wrote in the 1940s. Hurston is popularly known for her 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, while Wright is remembered for Native Son, which was studied in Kenyan schools. Both writers died in 1960.
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