NoViolet Bulawayo
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English - April 17, 2022 11:15 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsBooks Arts monocle music monocle magazine tyler brûlé culture current affairs design business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Georgina Godwin meets Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo. Her first novel, ‘We Need New Names’, was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, making her the first Zimbabwean and first black African woman to make the shortlist. Her new novel ‘Glory’, set in an animal kingdom called Jidada, tells the story of dashed hopes, corruption and greed following the fall of a dictator.
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