Shalini Gidoomal is a freelance journalist, writer, businesswoman and inveterate traveller, born, and currently living in Nairobi. She has worked on various UK and international magazines and newspapers, including The Independent, News of the World, Sunday Mirror, Today, FHM, GQ and Architectural Digest. In Kenya, she has written for the East African, Travel News, The Standard, Care International and Camerapix. Her short stories and non- fiction have been published in various Caine Prize anthologies, in collections of African short stories, and in the Kenyan journal Kwani.
In between writing jobs she has worked in a UK prison charity, and set up a fair trade business making fashion accessories and training Kenyans in export design and quality control. Currently Shalini is editorial co-ordinator for the Generation Kenya 45 project, deputy treasurer for Pen Kenya, festival director of the recently held Kwani Litfest 2008 and the upcoming Baharini festival. She is founder of the innovative Revisioning Kenya forums, and vice-chair of the private sector board for Heritage and Culture. She is determined to resume work on a novel
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Dear Shalini,
Jambo sana!
I hope you’ve received the two pdf files of my published travel memoir ” A Chameleon’s Tale” that Sarah Tooth at Ubud Writers festival must have sent you by now.
It would be great to correspond with you once you’ve had a chance to read them with regards to the session you’ll be chairing at 3 p.m on thursday Oct with me and Jamal Mahjoub as well as the “Into Africa” session at the 3.15 p.m session on sunday.
Throwing around some ideas with you on how you are planning to structure these two sessions before the event in Ubud would help on my end in preparing for the sessions.
Looking forward to hearing back from you. My email is motejni@yahoo.com
Best regards,
Mohezin Tejani