NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Mkha Bulawayo (pen name of Elizabeth Tshele) is a Zimbabwean author, and Truman Capote Fellow at Cornell University. She won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story Hitting Budapest^[1] about a gang of street children in a Zimbabwean shantytown.^[2]

Life

She grew up in Zimbabwe.^[3] She graduated from Cornell University with an MFA.^[4]

Works

• "Hitting Budapest", Boston Review, November/December 2010
• J. M. Coetzee, ed (2009). "Snapshots". New writing from Africa 2009. African Books Collective. ISBN 9780620434287. http://books.google.com/books?id=e1BPdE6DIdEC&pg=PA343&lpg=PA343&dq=NoViolet+Mkha+Bulawayo&source=bl&ots=EF8isTNND7&sig=F35gOhVX9Y4NKK_1vMmEjuZZZJU&hl=en&ei=q5U0ToLZFYbf0QGbjc2IDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CE4Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=NoViolet%20Mkha%20Bulawayo&f=false. 

References

1. ^ NoViolet Bulawayo wins 12th Caine Prize for African Writing, Caine Prize for African Writing
2. ^ Alison Flood (2011-07-12). "NoViolet Bulawayo wins 'African Booker'". The Guardian. http://guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/12/noviolet-bulawayo-caine-prize. Retrieved 2011-07-12. 
3. ^ "Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo wins Caine writing prize". BBC News. 12 July 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14120349. 
4. ^ "Zimbabwean, NoViolet Bulawayo's 'Hitting Budapest' takes the 12th Caine Prize". Bulawayo 24. July 12, 2011. http://www.bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-local-byo-5547-article-Zimbabwean,+NoViolet+Bulawayo's+'Hitting+Budapest'+takes+the+12th+Caine+Prize.html. 

External links

• Bulawayo's blog
• Meet Noviolet Bulawayo, the 2011 Caine Prize Winner, Nairobi Star, Fatuma Noor, 14 July 2011