NoViolet Bulawayo

We Need New Names

Young Zimbabwean refugee girl navigates displacement, violence, and belonging

About the author

NoViolet Bulawayo
NoViolet Bulawayo

Zimbabwean novelist whose debut We Need New Names won the Hemingway/PEN Award. Her second novel Glory, an allegorical fable of Zimbabwean political collapse, was awarded the Booker Prize in 2022. She is one of the leading voices in contemporary African literature.

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