BookShyBooks blog, run by Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed, has compiled a list of 12 female Zimbabwean writers and their works.
The list contains such known titles as Tsitsi Dangaremgba’s novels Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not and the forthcoming This Mournable Body; Yvonne Vera’s Why Don’t You Carve Other Animals?, Nehanda, Without a Name, Under The Tongue, Butterfly Burning and The Stone Virgins; Petina Gappah’s story collections An Elegy for Easterly and Rotten Row, and her novel The Book of Memory; NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel We Need New Names; Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s story collection Shadows and her new novel House of Stone; and Panashe Chigumadzi’s novel Sweet Medicine and her new nonfiction book These Bones Will Rise Again.
Also included are Bryony Rheam’s This September Sun; Danai Gurira’s In the Continuum and Familiar; Nozipo J. Maraire’s Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter; Sue Nyathi’s The Polygamist and The Gold Diggers; Irene Sabatini’s The Boy Next Door and Peace and Conflict; and Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook, and her collection African Stories.
Read the list on BookShyBooks.
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