Gappah

There's bitter dark humor about contemporary Zimbabwe in Petina Gappah's glorious second novel, The Book of Memory. The narrator refers to an article in the Financial Gazette, with the headline: “Country Lacks Hangman.” And she continues, “It would ...

An Elegy for Easterly The Book of Memory Alert! Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah has made the shortlist of the United Kingdom's 2016 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award – the world's richest prize for a single short story. The prize goes to a story in ...

Gappah, who is one of 12 writers from six countries and across four continents up for award, was considered on the strength of her story titled 'The News of Her Death.' Other writers in contention for the world's richest prize for a single short story ...

The Book of Memory author Petina Gappah is the first Zimbabwean author to receive a nod from the competition's judges. More than half of the competitors are debut novelists, and others — including Booker Prize finalist Hanya Yanagihara — have been up ...

Swiss based Lawyer and author, Petina Gappah, has become the first Zimbabwean to be nominated for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, for her debut novel The Book of Memory. The novel is a fictional story about Memory, an albino woman facing the ...

Author Petina Gappah The Book of Memory Alert! Petina Gappah has made the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction longlist for her novel The Book of Memory, becoming the first Zimbabwean author to be longlisted for the prize. Just over a week ago, ...