NoViolet Bulawayo left Zimbabwe at 18 to study law in America, but a series of photos changed her plans. The pictures showed people displaced by a 2005 government cleanup operation; the first one ...
The Booker-shortlisted author talks about Zimbabwe after Mugabe - and drawing on Orwell for her brilliant new political satire On the day I talk over Zoom with NoViolet Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, she is ...
NoViolet Bulawayo, a Stegner Fellow at Stanford, weaves together her winning first novel, "We Need New Names," with a rare and welcome economy. The prose is spare and stirring, and the worldview ...
Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has been honoured as Africa’s best short story writer after winning the Best of Caine Award. The special recognition marks 25 years of the annual Caine Prize for ...
Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo launched her novel, We Need New Names, long-listed for the prestigious Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Awardto a gathering of about 100 people in her ...
This second novel from NoViolet Bulawayo isn’t just better than her impressive, Booker-shortlisted debut, it’s also radically different, writes Stuart Kelly One of the less appreciated benefits of ...
When NoViolet Bulawayo left Zimbabwe, she lost not only her homeland but her name as well. Several names, in fact. Her official one was Elizabeth Zandile Tshele, though she was never really attached ...
Booker Prize 2013: NoViolet Bulawayo returns to her homeland NoViolet Bulawayo was 18 when she left Zimbabwe for a new life in America on the eve of the new millennium. This year, her debut novel soon ...
Writing about Zimbabwe while living in the US has changed her language and her identity, says NoViolet Bulawayo, the author of "We Need New Names." DW met up with the young African writer on her first ...