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Dec 31, 2023 | allevents.in | NoViolet Bulawayo |Anuk Arudpragasam

“A Swim in a Pond in the Rain” - a New York Times Bestseller - is a collection of short stories by Russian literary greats. About this Event“A Swim in a Pond in the Rain” - a New York Times Bestseller - is a collection of short stories by Russian literary greats. In this meetup, we’ll be covering the short story, ‘The Darling’ by Anton Chekhov and the accompanying essay by George Saunders’.

Sep 20, 2023 | kulturaustausch.de | NoViolet Bulawayo |Mohamed Amjahid |Damon Galgut |Fatin Abbas

September 2023How do you work with Yurok communities? What values are important in tackling problems? Over the years, Yurok practices have changed, but our core values shouldn’t. That’s what divides us and non-Native cultures in the United States: we have a different value system that informs our practices. But over the years our community has developed some very bad habits, like drinking, drugs and violence.

Mar 11, 2023 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | NoViolet Bulawayo

By NoViolet Bulawayo Viking 416 pp. Reviewed by Susi Wyss March 11, 2023 This searing fable of corruption in Zimbabwe conjures Orwell. NoViolet Bulawayo’s second work of fiction, Glory, builds on African and worldwide folklore traditions to tell its story through an all-animal cast of characters. For many Western readers, this approach will likely evoke George Orwell’s Animal Farm, which also relies on anthropomorphism.

Mar 8, 2023 | booksirelandmagazine.com | NoViolet Bulawayo |Camilla Grudova |Natalie Haynes |Louise Kennedy one

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy one of nine debuts on the Women’s Prize for Fiction Trespasses by Louise Kennedy (Bloomsbury) is one of nine debuts on the longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction this year, which includes previous winners Maggie O’Farrell and Barbara Kingsolver. The Women’s Prize for Fiction was founded in 1996, and is open to any novel by a woman originally published in English, with a prize of £30,000.

Mar 7, 2023 | womensprizeforfiction.co.uk | Sophie Mackintosh |NoViolet Bulawayo |Tara M. Stringfellow |Lynsey Passmore

Now in its twenty-eighth year, the Women’s Prize for Fiction shines a spotlight on outstanding, ambitious, original fiction written in English by women from anywhere in the world. We are thrilled to introduce the 2023 longlist –16 dazzling novels to discover, with new books from former Women’s Prize champions sitting alongside a host of debuts and rising stars.