NoViolet Bulawayo
2015
NoViolet Bulawayo’s astonishing debut novel, We Need New Names, was selected for the 2013 Man Booker Prize shortlist, making her the first black African woman and the first Zimbabwean to be shortlisted for the prize. We Need New Names went on to win the Etisalat Prize for Literature and the Pen/Hemingway Award. NoViolet Bulawayo has also been named one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35.” Currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, she was born and raised in Zimbabwe and moved to Michigan as a teenager. The New York Times called We Need New Names, “A deeply felt and fiercely written debut novel. The voice Ms. Bulawayo has fashioned for [Darling] is utterly distinctive.”
