NoViolet Bulawayo
Biography
NoViolet Bulawayo was born and raised in Zimbabwe. NoViolet’s story "Hitting Budapest," the opening chapter of the novel, won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing. NoViolet’s other work has been shortlisted for the 2009 SA PEN Studzinsi Award, and has appeared in Callaloo, The Boston Review, Newsweek, and The Warwick Review, as well as in anthologies in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK. NoViolet recently earned her MFA at Cornell University, where her work has been recognized with a Truman Capote Fellowship. She now lives in the United States and is currently [Nov. 2013] a Wallace Stegner Fellow fat Stanford University.
Here NoViolet Bulawayo reads during the 2013 "5 Under 35" presented by the National Book Foundation. Five National Book Award Fiction Winners and Finalists from previous years were asked to select one fiction writer under the age of 35 whose work they found particularly interesting and exciting. 2012 National Book Award Finalist Junot Diaz for, This is How You Lose Her, selected Bulawayo.
Two Books by NoViolet Bulawayo
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