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{{Short description|Kenyan nurse and children’s writer (born 1942)}}

{{Short description|Kenyan nurse and children’s writer (born 1942)}}

”’Anne-Rose Waruguru Matindi”’ (born 1942<ref name=”Kenya1972″>{{cite book|author=Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya|title=Accessions List, Eastern Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i2WpFYzok1MC|year=1972|publisher=Library of Congress Office|pages=109, 305}}</ref>) is a Kenyan nurse and children’s writer, known for her plays aimed at elementary school children.<ref name=Jones>Jones, Wilma L., [https://web.archive.org/web/20200216221602/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f68f/da4a580caa6f62249a2774a9e6c3cf301988.pdf “Twenty Contemporary African Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliography”], 1995. Accessed 11 February 2020.</ref>

”’Anne-Rose Waruguru Matindi”’ (born 1942<ref name=”Kenya1972″>{{cite book|author=Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya|title=Accessions List, Eastern Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i2WpFYzok1MC|year=1972|publisher=Library of Congress Office|pages=109, 305}}</ref>) is a Kenyan nurse and children’s writer, known for her plays aimed at elementary school children.<ref name=Jones>Jones, Wilma L., [https://web.archive.org/web/20200216221602/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f68f/da4a580caa6f62249a2774a9e6c3cf301988.pdf “Twenty Contemporary African Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliography”], 1995. Accessed 11 February 2020.</ref>


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Anne Matindi

Born (1942-01-01)January 1, 1942
Died June 8, 2023(2023-06-08) (aged 81)
Occupation Writer

Kenyan nurse and children’s writer (born 1942)

Anne-Rose Waruguru Matindi (born 1942[1]) is a Kenyan nurse and children’s writer, known for her plays aimed at elementary school children.[2]

Anne Matindi was born in Murang’a District, Kenya,[3] and was educated at Nginda Girls’ School and Kahuhia Girls’ School. By the time her first collection of stories was published in 1967, she was married with three children.[4]

Matindi’s stories, set in East Africa, are often amusing traditional stories about domestic animals.[2]

  • The sun and the wind. Nairobi : East African Publishing House, 1967. Illustrations by Adrienne Moore. East African junior library, no. 7.
  • The lonely black pig, and other stories. Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1968. East African junior library, no. 5.
  • Jua na Upepo; na hadithi nyingine. Nairobi: East African Pub. House, 1968. Hadithi za kikwetu, 3. (Short story in Swahili.)
  • (with Cynthia Hunter) The sun-men and other plays. Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1971. Illustrations by Beryl Moore. Plays for primary schools, 1.
  • The Kasiwes and their animals, and other stories. Nairobi : Phoenix, 1996. Illustrations by Emmanuel Kariuki. Phoenix young readers library.

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