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Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo makes Booker Prize shortlist with â€˜Glory'

Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo has made the shortlist for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction.The 40-year-old, real name Elizabeth Zandile Tshele, is in line for the award for her animal fable "Glory".She was initially named in a…

Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 07:38hrs | 11 | by Associated Press

NoViolet Bulawayo makes prestigious Booker Prize shortlist

ZIMBABWEAN writer NoViolet Bulawayo is among the 13 authors shortlisted for the prestigious 2022 Booker Prize for fiction.Bulawayo, was nominated for her second novel â€˜Glory' which has been described as "even better and radically differe…

Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 06:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

NoViolet Bulawayo back with another novel

Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo has announced her second novel, titled Glory. The new book by Bulawayo -- real name Elisabeth Zandile Tshele -- is set in the days following Robert Mugabe's ouster. Glory is crafted like an allegory in t…

Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 08:12hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter

NoViolet Bulawayo wows US audience

BROOKLYN - Award winning author NoViolet Bulawayo last week took to the microphone, reading from her first novel, We Need New Names at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in the United States.Published last year, the story follows a girl n…

Published: 25 Mar 2014 at 11:06hrs | 6 | by brooklyneagle.com

NoViolet Bulawayo wins the Etisalat Prize for Literature

Zimbabwean NoViolet Bulawayo has won the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature for debut fiction, for her novel We Need New Names, it was announced in Lagos, Nigeria a short while ago.Having missed out on both the Man Booker Prize and th…

Published: 24 Feb 2014 at 09:17hrs | 3043 | by Staff reporter

NoViolet's star continues to shine bright

NOVIOLET Bulawayo's star continues to shine bright as she has once again been nominated for another prestigious award for her book We Need New Names.The award, Etisalat Prize for Literature is the first Pan-African literary prize created t…

Published: 24 Jan 2014 at 09:34hrs | 2274 | by Staff reporter

NoViolet Bulawayo, the first black African woman nominated for Booker Prize

Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo on Tuesday became the first black African woman to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, for her tale of a 10-year-old girl who escapes poverty at home only to find new problems in the United States.Bulawayo…

Published: 11 Sep 2013 at 05:43hrs | 4 | by AFP

NoViolet Bulawayo Launches 'We Need New Names' in Zimbabwe - Video

NoViolet Bulawayo pays a moving tribute to her father and talks about being an African writer at the Zimbabwe launch of 'We Need New Names'. Watch video below:http://youtube.com/watch?v=prfdmzPTPNM

Published: 09 Sep 2013 at 14:06hrs | 2882 | by NoViolet Bulawayo

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