Breaking News! ROUGH SILK- CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL (UK)NOMINEE ROUGH SILK, a book Authored by Deborah Auko a Kenyan, has been nominated to feature at the Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival in the UK this October! It’s the Only Book from East Africa

Deborah Auko, author of "Rough Silk" and the only East African nominee at the Cheltenham Literary Festival in the UK last month, was my guest today. Congratulations on your literary accomplishments! More Kenyans should take up writing, I urge.

Hassan Wanini Anne Waiguru EGH, OGW or Deborah Auko the author of #Roughsilk the book.

Joyce Nyairo Deborah Auko- Tendo I discovered this book from your post. It’s the most emotionally moving story I’ve ever read. I had to come back to get the author’s contacts to just thank her for sharing her life with us in such an honest and deeply moving story. Thank you Joyce for posting it.

Jackie Manani, OGW Deborah Auko- Tendo 🙌🏾 Such a valuable addition to our (hi)stories. Deborah has the rare talent of making you feel what she feels and painting indelible pictures of people and places. And when she wants to conceal something she does so with such grace that you give her the space to keep that secret.

Jackie Manani, OGW Deborah Auko- Tendo And yes: “Rough Silk” is one of those books that sends you on such an emotional rollercoaster, and a steep learning curve, that you want to inflict it in everyone you know! I won’t tell you how gift copies I have bought in the last ten days 🙈

Jackie Manani, OGW Deborah Auko- Tendo 💯 I cried. I laughed. I stared into space for minutes of end. I wept again. Eh!! Deborah deserves all our support. And I pray she will write som fiction soon because he Eis brilliant.

Baba The Raila Odinga Amolo Foundation meets the Author of the Kenyan book ‘Rough Silk’ Deborah Auko- Tendo ! The award winning Book That was launched in April 2023 at the Pan Afric Hotel in one of the grandest book launches ever to be seen in the country was nominated to feature at the Cheltenham

Judith Awuor Ologi, Nyar Ndhiwa, is the sister who welcomed me to Bergen when I was young and I knew nothing about Scandinavia. Every Sunday evening, Dr. Matanda Dennis and I would troop to her flat at Fantoft student hostels for her weekly Chapati serving. With her, we never

Thanks alot NG’ENDO MURUGU I was hoping for a quiet return.

Blessed is the hand that giveth..and the hand that taketh.

Deborah Auko- Tendo Let’s gooooo!!!! Nyar Overseas.

One year of revolutionizing the literature space in Kenya. Let's celebrate tomorrow. Best seller. Tour to the US and UK. Only East African Cheltenham Lit Fes nominee. Translated to five foreign languages. #RoughSilkAnniversary Deborah Auko Tendo

With author Deborah Aoko Tendo and her husband Walter Odhiambo at KICC for the 1st Anniversary of her book "Rough Silk," the incredible story of a dad and daughter. Stories matter!

Deborah Auko Tendo. . . You remember her? She is the author of "Rough Silk," the insightful and inspirational book on father-daughter relationship. She will be speaking tomorrow at KICC during the launch of the 50,000 Family Project.

The one book you must own.

.Deborah Auko- Tendo reads an excerpt from my book ‘Rig Or Be Rigged?’ #RigOrBeRigged? #MillieOdhiamboBookLaunch

The hired militia robbed this lady and her passport has been found. Please share widely for her to get her passport back..She is probably looking for a job at the gulf or a Visa or its her only form of identification.