NoViolet Bulawayo

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NoViolet Bulawayo
Born Elizabeth Zandile Tshele
Template:1981
Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe
Language English
Education Njube High School;
Mzilikazi High School
Alma mater Texas A&M University-Commerce;
Southern Methodist University;
Cornell University
Genres Short Story; Novel
Notable award(s) Caine Prize for African Writing; Man Booker Prize shortlist

NoViolet Bulawayo (pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele, born 12 October 1981 in Tsholotsho)[1] is a Zimbabwean author,[2] and Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (2012–2014).[3][4]

Life

Bulawayo was born and raised in Zimbabwe and attended Njube High School and later Mzilikazi High School for her A levels.[5] She completed her college education in the US, studying at Kalamazoo Valley Community College,[6] and earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Texas A&M University-Commerce and Southern Methodist University respectively.[7] In 2010, she completed a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Cornell University, where her work was recognized with a Truman Capote Fellowship.[7]

Her novel entitled We Need New Names was released in 2013,[8] and was included in the 2013 Man Booker Prize shortlist.[9][10] This made her the first black African woman and the first Zimbabwean to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. [11]

She has begun work on a memoir project.[12]

Awards and honors

Works

  • 2009 "Snapshots", published in New writing from Africa 2009 (J. M. Coetzee, ed.)
  • 2010 "Hitting Budapest", published in Boston Review[19] and The Caine Prize for African Writing 2011
  • 2013 We Need New Names

References

  1. ↑ "Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2013 announced", The Man Booker Prize, 10 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo wins Caine writing prize". BBC News. 12 July 2011. 
  3. ↑ "Announcing the 2012-2014 Stegner Fellowship Recipients", from About the Felloship, Last Accessed April 2012.
  4. ↑ Zvomuya, Percy. "NoViolet Bulawayo makes Man Booker Prize longlist". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 23 July 2013. 
  5. ↑ Simba Manhango (2011-07-23). "Hard work, passion the special ingredients for success: author". The Standard. Retrieved 2012-04-14. 
  6. ↑ John Liberty (July 23, 2013). "Author, KVCC graduate NoViolet Bulawayo named to prestigious Man Booker long list". MLive Media Group. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Elizabeth Tshele, Cornell University Department of English. Last accessed April 2012.
  8. ↑ Kristy Davis. "We Need New Names: A Novel". Oprah. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Shortlist 2013 announced". Man Booker Prize. 10 September 2013. 
  10. ↑ Driscoll, Molly (July 23, 2013). "Man Booker Prize long list includes writers Colum McCann, Tash Aw". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 23 July 2013. 
  11. ↑ "First black African woman nominated for Booker Prize" AFP, 10 September 2013.
  12. ↑ 's+'Hitting+Budapest'+takes+the+12th+Caine+Prize.html "Zimbabwean, NoViolet Bulawayo's 'Hitting Budapest' takes the 12th Caine Prize". Bulawayo 24. July 12, 2011. 
  13. ↑ "NoViolet Bulawayo wins 12th Caine Prize for African Writing", Caine Prize for African Writing.
  14. ↑ Alison Flood (2011-07-12). "NoViolet Bulawayo wins 'African Booker'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-07-12. 
  15. ↑ Julia Fleischaker (September 13, 2013). "Women dominate the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 list". Melville House Books. Retrieved September 14, 2013. 
  16. ↑ "We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo". The Guardian. 15 November 2013. Retrieved February 05, 2014. 
  17. ↑ "Etisalat Prize for Literature Announces 2013 Shortlist". Etisalat Prize. January 23, 2014. Retrieved January 23, 2014. 
  18. ↑ "2013 Discover Awards". Barnes and Noble. 2013. Retrieved February 05, 2014. 
  19. ↑ NoViolet Bulawayo (November/December 2010). "Hitting Budapest". Boston Review. Retrieved January 23, 2014. 

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