Petina Gappah
Zimbabwean lawyer and novelist whose debut collection An Elegy for Easterly won the Guardian First Book Award. Her fiction satirizes Zimbabwean political life with biting wit. She is one of the most celebrated contemporary African writers.
Works
- An Elegy for EasterlyInterconnected stories of Zimbabwean women enduring poverty and displacement
- The Book of Memory
- Out of Darkness, Shining LightHistorical novel of missionary and slave trader in nineteenth-century East Africa
- Out of Darkness Shining LightHistorical novel of missionary and slave trader in nineteenth-century East Africa