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Africa: Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo Shortlisted for Top Literary Prize
allAfrica, 10 September 2022
The celebrated Zimbabwean novelist, NoViolet Bulawayo, has been short-listed for one of the world's most prestigious literary awards for her latest work, Glory. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: NoViolet Bulawayo Explains Why She Wrote 'Glory'
New Zimbabwe, 10 September 2022
This article was originally published in The Penguin Post, a magazine about books for book lovers from Penguin Random House SA. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: The Weight and Want of Noviolet Bulawayo's 'Glory'
New Frame, 5 April 2022
After a profoundly successful debut, Noviolet Bulawayo's second novel - which began as non-fiction - leaves realism for allegory to confront the Zimbabwean present. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Noviolet Bulawayo's New Novel Is an Instant Zimbabwean Classic
The Conversation Africa, 27 July 2022
In Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo's new novel Glory - longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 - animals take on human characteristics. Through this she explores what happens when… Read more »
Zimbabwean Novelist Shortlisted for Major Literary Award
NoViolet Bulawayo says while Zimbabwe inspired her latest book, Glory, she sees it as "my humble contribution" to the collective struggles of "resistance movements across the world challenging different forms of oppression..." The winner the The Booker Prize will be announced in London on October 17.
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