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Matilda Phiri

Author of Grace the Village Girl Book

Matilda Phiri is a multiple award winning Malawian Author, blogger, Poet, Musician, Model, Actress, and Entrepreneur. She is a University graduate of Political Leadership Degree minoring in Social Work. She graduated from Catholic University of Malawi. She did her primary school at Nayisi and Misesa LEA School and Blantyre Secondary School. She is the author of Grace the village girl, Chidaliro and his Sisters books.

She started writing in 2005. In 2011, she started publishing articles and short stories in Malawi news. In 2013, she was given a column in Malawi news to write folktales every weekend. She has written movie scripts, radio plays, essays, poems and short stories many of which are in the pipeline to be screen played into movies, theatrical plays and published in books. She has worked with different organizations in Malawi like IKI, NSO and Centre for Social Research as a Social Researcher.

In 2015, She became the first female to win Malawi Writer’s Union Peer Gynt Children's book competition with her story titled Grace the village girl which she published in 2018. She also won FMB/MAWU short story award in 2016. In 2017,  She won National Literary award with her story titled Bitter Lemonade.

She loves doing charity work and was also nominated for Queens Young Africans achievers award in 2017. She wants to empower girl child and contribute to quality education in the world. She believes in hard work and persistence.