NoViolet Bulawayo
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| Born | Elizabeth Zandile Tshele December 10, 1981 Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe |
| Language | English |
| Education |
Njube High School; Mzilikazi High School |
| Alma mater |
Texas A&M University-Commerce; Southern Methodist University; Cornell University |
| Genre | Short Story; Novel |
| Notable awards | Caine Prize for African Writing; Man Booker Prize shortlist |
NoViolet Bulawayo (pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele, born 12 October 1981 in Tsholotsho) is a Zimbabwean author, and Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (2012–2014). In 2012 the National Book Foundation named her a 5 under 35 honoree.
Bulawayo was born and raised in Zimbabwe and attended Njube High School and later Mzilikazi High School for her A levels. She completed her college education in the US, studying at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, and earning bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Texas A&M University-Commerce and Southern Methodist University respectively. 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.
Her debut novel entitled We Need New Names was released in 2013, and was included in the 2013 Man Booker Prize shortlist. This made her the first black African woman and the first Zimbabwean to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She also won the Etisalat Prize for Literature and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award among other accolades.
She has begun work on a memoir project. Bulawayo sits on the pan-African literary initiative, Writivism's Board of Trustees.
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