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NoViolet Bulawayo is a Zimbabwean author and professor of creative writing. She is best known for her debut novel We Need New Names, which won the 2013 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. NoViolet was born in Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe, and grew up in the city of Bulawayo. She attended the University of Zimbabwe, where she earned a degree in English and Communication Studies. She then moved to the United States to pursue a master's degree in Creative Writing at Cornell University. NoViolet's debut novel, We Need New Names, was published in 2013. The novel follows the story of a young girl, Darling, who is forced to flee her home in Zimbabwe and seek refuge in the United States. The novel was widely praised and won the 2013 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. NoViolet is currently a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. She is also the author of the short story collection, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, which was published in 2017.

Popular As Elizabeth Zandile Tshele
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Age 42 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 10 December 1981
Birthday 10 December
Birthplace Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe
Nationality Zimbabwe

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2011

In 2011 she won the Caine Prize with her story "Hitting Budapest", which had been published in the November/December 2010 issue of the Boston Review and became the opening chapter of her 2013 debut novel. We Need New Names was included in the 2013 Man Booker Prize shortlist, making Bulawayo the first black African woman and the first Zimbabwean to be shortlisted for the prize. She also won the Etisalat Prize for Literature and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, among other accolades.

In 2011, it was reported that she had begun work on a memoir project. Bulawayo sat on the board of trustees of the pan-African literary initiative Writivism between 2014 and 2018.

2010

Bulawayo was born and raised in Zimbabwe and attended Njube High School and later Mzilikazi High School for her A-levels. She completed her college education in the US, studying at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, and earning bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Texas A&M University-Commerce and Southern Methodist University respectively. In 2010, she completed a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Cornell University, where her work was recognized with a Truman Capote Fellowship.

1981

NoViolet Bulawayo is the pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele, (born 12 October 1981 in Tsholotsho) is a Zimbabwean author, and Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (2012–14). In 2012, the National Book Foundation named her a 5 under 35 honoree.