A P Von K’Ory is the winner of six Awards from four continents: the Achievers Award for African Writer Of The Year 2013 in the Netherlands, the Selmere Integration Prize was awarded in 2014 for her engagement in helping African Women in the Diaspora, The Proposal, her short story, won the Cook Communications first prize in 2010, and in 2012 she won the Karl Ziegler Prize for her commitment to bring African culture to the Western audience and savvy Africanists. Again in 2012 her book Bound to Tradition (now a trilogy) was nominated for the Caine Prize by the Author-me Group, Sanford, and in 2013 she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize. She lives in Germany, France, Cyprus and Greece with her "aristo-husband", son and two grandsons. Writing is now her full time job. Visit her page at http: //akinyi-princess.de