14 Aug 2014

NoViolet Bulawayo 'We Need New Names'

From Nine To Noon, 10:07 am on 14 August 2014

Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo on her 2013 Man Booker prize short-listed debut novel 'We Need New Names', which also won the LA Times Book Award for First Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 2014. NoViolet is the first ever black African woman to be nominated for the Man Booker prize. She was born and raised in Zimbabwe and is the current Stegner Fellow at Stanford University in California. She is a guest at the 2014 Christchurch Readers and Writers Festival: The Stars Are Out Tonight: Friday 29 August, 7.30pm and We Need New Names: Saturday 30 August, 2pm.