Bulawayo, NoViolet
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Name (Latin)
Bulawayo, NoViolet
Other forms of name
Tshele, Elizabeth Zandile, 1981-
Date of birth
1981-10-12
Associated country
Zimbabwe
Occupation
Authors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- We need new names, 2013:ECIP t.p. (NoViolet Bulawayo) data view (born and raised in Zimbabwe; her story "Hitting Budapest," the opening chapter of the novel, won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing; her other work has been shortlisted for the 2009 SA PEN Studzinsi Award, and has appeared in Callaloo, The Boston Review, Newsweek, and The Warwick Review, as well as in anthologies in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK; she recently earned her MFA at Cornell University, where her work has been recognized with a Truman Capote Fellowship; she will be attending Stanford Univ. as a Wallace Stegner Fellow for 2012-2014)
- NoViolet Bulawayo (pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele (b. Oct. 12, 1981 in Tsholotsho) is a Zimbabwean author and Stegner Fellow at Stanford University ( (Wikipedia, July 11, 2019) )
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NoViolet Bulawayo at Melbourne, Australia
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Wikipedia description:
NoViolet Bulawayo is the pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele (born 12 October 1981), a Zimbabwean author. In 2012, the National Book Foundation named her a "5 Under 35" honoree. She was named one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by New African magazine in 2014. Her debut novel, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the 2013 Booker Prize, and her second novel, Glory, was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, making her "the first Black African woman to appear on the Booker list twice".
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