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Zimbabwean writer, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, has emerged winner of the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award in the fiction category. She won it with her debut novel, House of Stone. The book was awarded for its sense of place.
Describing her win, the judges said her novel is “impressive, evocative and highly unusual.” Adding that “the playful, often painful narrative takes a series of unexpected turns, keeping the reader engrossed in often shocking African politics and history.”
Fellow Zimbabwean-linked writer Zukiswa Wanner writes that: “If Tshuma never writes another book (I really hope she does) she has entrenched her place into the history of literature with this book. A must read for lovers of history and good writing.”
House of Stone has been longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize organized by the Swansea University. It was also awarded the Bellagio Literary Arts Residency Award.
And Tshuma copped another win which she published on social media:
What a year. Published #HouseofStone ,graduating from the PhD a year early next year, and just got a letter from my University Dean for a Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award for my 2nd novel project—meaning no teaching next year,just us & the writing. On a roll.Thank you,UH!
Currently a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Houston, Novuyo is an MFA graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and a graduate of Economics and Finance from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She has received several honours and fellowships including: Rydson Award, 2016 writer-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the 2009 Yvonne Vera Award, the 2014 Herman Charles Bosman Prize for her collection of short stories, Shadows. She is also a fiction editor at The Bare Life Review.
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