The award-winning debut novel by Noviolet Bulawayo, “We Need New Names” is available in Italian as “C‘è Bisogno Di Nuovi Nomi“. Noviolet Bulawayo won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2011 for the short story Hitting Budapest. She released “We Need New Names” two years later and added “novelist” to […]
NoViolet Bulawayo
African writers have written in diverse forms, styles and in many languages. They have been able to creatively put words about their lives, experiences, culture, history and myth together in books published widely on the African continent and beyond. Many of these books consist of sentences that impart divine influence […]
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The 9mobile Prize for Literature is set to announce the 2018 winner of the prize, this is coming 18months after the shortlist was announced.
Set in Zimbabwe, during the draconian rule of Robert Mugabe who held onto power for 37 years, “We Need New Names” mirrors the mess that was the life of Zimbabweans at that time.