NoViolet Bulawayo
NoViolet Bulawayo (* 1981 in Tsholotsho , Matabeleland North Province ) is a Zimbabwean writer living in the United States.
Life
NoViolet Bulawayo was born as Elizabeth Zandile Tshele in Zimbabwe and grew up in Bulawayo until she was 18 . Then she emigrated to her aunt in Detroit in the United States. She gave herself her name in memory of the city in which she grew up and of her mother: “With mother at home”. She studied English in the USA and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts. She then did an MFA in Creative Writing at Cornell University , supported by a Truman Capote Fellow. In 2012 she received a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University .
In 2011 she received the “ Caine Prize for African Writing ” for her short story Hitting Budapest (2010) . For her short story Snapshots (2009) she was nominated for the "South Africa PEN Studzinsi Award". Bulawayo was chosen by the American National Book Foundation on the recommendation of Junot Díaz under the "5 under 35". Her autobiographical novel We Need New Names was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013 . The same novel received the Hemingway Foundation PEN Award in 2014 and, in its German translation, was shortlisted for the Berlin International Literature Prize of the House of World Cultures in 2015 .
Works
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We need new names . Chattoo, 2013 ISBN 978-0-316-23083-4
- We need new names . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2014 ISBN 978-3-518-42451-3
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Snapshots , in: New writing from Africa. African Books Collective, Johnson & King James Books, 2009 ISBN 978-0-620-43428-7
- Übers. Friederike Hofert, Martina Kollroß: Snapshots , in Snapshots - Snapshots. Stories from African Countries. Stories from African countries. Series: Düsseldorf translated. 8. Anthology. Düsseldorf University Press DUP, 2017, pp. 9–42 (bilingual English-German)
- Hitting Budapest , in The Caine Prize for African Writing , 2011 ISBN 978-1-906523-86-2
Awards
- 2010 Truman Capote Fellowship
- 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story Hitting Budapest
- 2013 National Book Award
- 2014 Hemingway Foundation PEN Award for We Need New Names
Nominations
- 2013 Man Booker Prize for her novel We Need New Names
Web links
- NoViolet Bulawayo, personal website
- Suzi Feay: We Need New Names , Review, in: Financial Times , September 20, 2013
- Interview with NoViolet Bulawayo , in: Los Angeles Review of Books, August 7, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ NoViolet Bulawayo tells of heartbreak of homecoming in Mugabe's Zimbabwe , The Guardian , September 4, 2013
- ^ Margarete Stokowski: People in Shards . Review, in: The Literary World , November 29, 2014, p. 6
- ^ Stanford Stegner Fellow NoViolet Bulawayo shortlisted for Man Booker Prize, Stanford University
- ↑ 2011 winner: Noviolet Bulawayo - The Caine Prize ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 5 under 35 , 2013, The National Book Foundation
- ↑ Shortlist of this year's Berlin International Literature Prize published , Deutschlandradio Kultur from June 1, 2015
- ^ A slum called Paradise in FAS , August 17, 2014, p. 35
- ↑ 2011 winner: NOVIOLET BULAWAYO. The Caine Prize for African Writing ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Boston Review
- ↑ National Book Award 5 under 35
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bulawayo, NoViolet |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tshele, Elizabeth Zandile (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Zimbabwean American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tsholotsho , Matabeleland North Province , Zimbabwe |