Zimbabwean ,Author NoViolet Bulawayo makes Guardian First Book Award 2013 Longlist

Zimbabwean Author and Caine Prize
Winner, NoViolet Bulawayo is on the
awards trail again! NoViolet who won
the Caine Prize for African writing with
her short story, “Hitting Budapest” is
now on the track for the the Guardian
First Book Award 2013 with her novel,
“We Need New Names”.
The Guardian First Book Award is
unique because the prize judges fiction
AND non-fiction. According to the
Guardian review editor and chairman of
panel of judges, Lisa Allardice, the
award seeks to reward “excellence,
promise and originality”.
The 2013 longlist for the £10,000 prize
comprises five non-fiction titles, five
novels and a collection of poems, which
was the readers’ choice.
NoViolet who won the Caine Prize in
2013 obtained a Masters in Fine Arts
(MFA) from Cornell University where she
was a Truman Capote Fellow and lecturer
of English. Her short story “Snapshots”
was also shortlisted in 2009 for the SA
PEN/Studzinski Literary Award.
The winner of the Guardian First Book
Award 2013 will be announced in
November. We wish NoViolet all the best.