Department of English

• Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Kelly Writers House

This is the final event in the 2014-15 African Voices Series, curated by Tsitsi Jaji, and funded by the Provost Arts and Culture Fund and by Writers Across Borders. The series doubled in one year the total number of African writers ever invited to read at Kelly Writers House. This event is free and open to the public. Publicity costs are supported by the Department of Africana Studies.

NoViolet Bulawayo is the author of We Need New Names (May 2013) which has been recognized with the LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Pen/Hemingway Award, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award (second place), and the National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Fiction Selection. We Need New Names was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and selected to the New York Times Notable Books of 2013 list, the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers list, and others. NoViolet’s story “Hitting Budapest” won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing.

NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she now teaches as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction. NoViolet grew up in Zimbabwe.