Alert! Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah has been longlisted for the United Kingdom’s 2016 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.. Read an excerpt from the story below. With £30 000 prize money (about R670 000), the Sunday Times Short Story Award is the world’s richest prize for a single short story.

I began to read Petina Gappah's Rotten Row, which is set in Zimbabwe, as part of my Around the World in 80 Books challenge. I tend to adore short story collections, and whilst I admired the use of a single road in Harare as the geographical setting for each inclusion, this book simply did not work for me.

She is currently an international trade lawyer in Geneva, and she lives in Zimbabwe. Petina Gappah (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper.

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11 Oct 2016 So begins Petina Gappah's 'Rotten Row' (2016). The acclaimed Zimbabwean author's forthcoming collection of short stories to be published in

Petina Gappah: I wrote the first story in May 2006, it was the first short story I had ever written, I called it Something Nice from London. That story's surprising success encouraged to write more short stories. My third story did well in the SA PEN competition judged by JM Coetzee. 2009-12-04 · Petina Gappah: 'I don't see myself as an African writer' The winner of the Guardian First Book award on finding comedy in tragedy – and why she is not the voice of Zimbabwe Petina Gappah.

Gappah’s short fiction and essays have been published in eight countries. Her debut story collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and her first novel, The Book of Memory, was longlisted for the 2015 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.

Gappahs debutbok, novellsamlingen Sorgesång för Easterly (An Elegy for Easterly, 2009, svensk Winner of the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, this is an unforgettable collection of powerful stories by a Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. The government has Essäer, Allmän skönlitteratur; Bok; Häftad; English; Petina Gappah Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story Winner of the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, this is an unforgettable collection of powerful stories by a Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

When Petina Gappah won the Guardian first book award with her short story collection “An Elegy for Easterly” in 2009, she cheerfully told an interviewer that her first novel was due out in two She has a clear idea of where her home is: in the troubled mix of cultures that is post-colonial Zimbabwe. Gappah made her fiction debut in 2009 with the short story collection An Elegy for Easterly, a critical portrait of life and politics in Zimbabwe that earned her the Guardian First Book Award. Petina Gappah’s story “A Short History of Zaka the Zulu” appears in this week’s issue of The New Yorker. PHOTOGRAPH BY MARINA CAVAZZA It doesn’t draw on my experiences but it does draw on my Petina Gappah is also the author of the short story collection An Elegy for Easterly. She lives in Zimbabwe.
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Petina Gappah (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. BIOGRAPHY. Petina Gappah was born in Zambia, in Copperbelt Province.
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Petina Gappah writes an intriguing novel, where plot is being developed in the It's like a collection of short stories connected to each other.

Petina began writing seriously in the year 2006. She submitted a story she wrote to an online writers group Zoetrope Virtual Studio, and it attracted a publisher’s interest from a literary journal called Per Contra. She still has the check, which she never cashed, she got for the story. 2016-03-24 · Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah has made the shortlist of the United Kingdom’s 2016 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award – the world’s richest prize for a single short story.