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Kiana Davenport (born Diana Davenport in
Honolulu, Hawaii Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island ...
) is an American author of part- Hawaiian ancestry. She is the author of critically acclaimed novels ''Shark Dialogues'' (1994) and ''Song of the Exile'', both of which explore aspects of life as a Polynesian in Western society. Her most recent novel was the bestselling ''House of Many Gods''. All three books are connected combining Hawaiian
family saga The family saga is a genre of literature which chronicles the lives and doings of a family or a number of related or interconnected families over a period of time. In novels (or sometimes sequences of novels) with a serious intent, this is often ...
with references to Hawaiian political and social history from the 18th century to present days. She has also written two Kindle eBooks namely "House of Skin" and "Cannibal Nights". The latter was released in July 2011. Her novel ''The Spy Lover'' recounts the story of a Chinese immigrant soldier, Johnny Tom, caught in the tumult of U.S. Civil War. The novel is based on the author's family history. Published by Thomas & Mercer, the book was released on 28 August 2012. ''The Soul Ajar: A Love Story'', was published in October 2014

She was also a 1992-93 Fiction Fellow at the Bunting Institute at Harvard-Radcliffe. Her novels have been translated into fourteen languages. Her short stories have been included in "The O. Henry Awards Anthologies", "The Pushcart Prize Collection", and "The Best American Short Stories, 2000". She has received the Eliot Cades Awards in Literature, and a writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.


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Brief biography''Song of the Exile''
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Native Hawaiian writers Writers from Honolulu Harvard Fellows {{hawaii-stub