Tag: Petina Gappah
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Petina Gappah is Heroe Book Fair 2022 keynote speaker
Petina Gappah will be the keynote speaker at the Heroe Book Fair 2022 which runs in Mombasa, Kenya from May 5-7, 2022. The festival theme is “Emancipation.” Heroe Book Fair is a Pan-African literary event bringing together Anglophone, Francophone, and German speaking writers, poets, publishers, and literary enthusiasts for a couple of days celebration of…
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New Arabic translations presented at Sharjah International Book Fair 2021.
Arabic translations of novels by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Peter Kimani, Lola Shoneyin, and Petina Gappah were presented at the Sharjah International Book Fair 2021 which ran from November 3-13, 2021. Sharjah International Book Fair is an international book fair held annually in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates since it was launched in 1982. It is today…
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Petina Gappah is an International Booker Prize 2022 judge.
Petina Gappah was announced as one of the judges of the International Booker Prize 2022 today, July 14, 2021. The prize is also now open for submissions. The Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom.…
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Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Petina Gappah for International Publishers Association Seminar in Nairobi.
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Petina Gappah are two of the many delegates set to attend the International Publishers Association Africa Seminar in Nairobi from June 14-15, 2019. At the Nairobi International Book Fair 2018 opening ceremony, the Kenya Publishers Association chairman Lawrence Njagi announced that the International Publishers Association (IPA) would be holding a seminar…
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Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to headline action packed Ake Festival 2016
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o will be the headline guest at this year’s edition of Ake Festival 2016. Ngugi, who will sit in conversation with Okey Ndibe about his life and work, will be joined by a galaxy of stars in the African literary space. This year’s edition is themed “Beneath this Skin.’ 15-19 November 2016 are…
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Petina Gappah receives Zimbabwe Achiever Awards gong
Petina Gappah received the Zimbabwe Achiever Award gong for services to Arts and Media in Harare North (London), UK on Saturday, May 7th, 2016. Petina Gappah has been having a very good year. Her long awaited book The Book of Memory came out recently and was longlisted for the Baileys Prize for Literature although it…
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Petina Gappah fails to make Bailey’s Women Prize for fiction 2016 Shortlist
The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist has been announced today and our Petina Gappah is sadly missing on it. :’( The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016 judging panel of lawyer and businesswoman Margaret Mountford, writer and journalist, Laurie Penny; award-winning author Elif Shafak, singer-songwriter and author Tracey Thorn and broadcast journalist, Naga Munchetty…
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Petina Gappah makes Baileys Women’s Prize for fiction 2016 longlist
It seems quite appropriate that the longlist for the Baileys Women’s Prize for fiction would be announced today on International Women’s Day. The longlist for the prize now in its twentieth year and worth UK pounds 30,000 to the winner includes Zimbabwe’s Petina Gappah for her sophomore effort The Book of Memory. The longlist was…
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Authors give tributes to late Zimbabwean author and poet Chenjerai Hove
Zimbabwean author, poet, and commentator Chenjerai Hove passed on in Stavanger, Norway on Sunday. The author who was born in Mazvihwa in 1956 leaves a wife and six children. Hove began life as a teacher before working as an editor for Mambo Press then devoted his life to writing. His works include Masimba Avanhu (1986),…
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Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory out in August
We all loved Pettina Gappah’s first book An Elegy for Easterly which won the Guardian first book award in 2009. It was a short story collection that can make you believe. If you have read Elegy you will see that the writer was working on her new novel The Book Of Memory. For those who…
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A review of Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly
Book: An Elegy for Easterly Author: Petina Gappah Publisher: Faber and Faber Year of publication: 2009 Number of pages: 273 We suffered a bit in the 1990s when the Kenyan shilling was devalued by 30% at one go in 1993 and we suffered the worst inflation in our history. The US dollar was suddenly going…
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Zukiswa Wanner launches books in Harare, Zimbabwe
It was an evening to remember at the Book Cafe in Harare last night as Zambian born South African/Zimbabwean author Zukiswa Wanner launched two of her books in the Zimbabwean capital. The books in question are her first book The Madams (2006) and her most recent book Men of The South (2010). It was homecoming…