NoViolet Bulawayo 4645 Plano Pkwy. Carrollton. TX 75010 [email protected]
EDUCATION
Stanford University Wallace Stegner Fellowship 2014
Cornell University M.F.A. English Language and Literature 2010
Southern Methodist University M.A. English 2007
Texas A&M University - Commerce B.A. English 2005
HONORS/AWARDS
Gina Berriault Award for Fiction (San Francisco State university) 2018 James D. Manyika Fellowship (Harvard University) 2017 Hodder Fellowship (Princeton University) 2016 Shortlisted for the International Literature Award 2015 Won the Pen Hemingway Award for Fiction 2014 Won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction 2014 Won the LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award 2014 Won for the Etisalat Prize for Literature 2014 Won the Fred Brown Literary Award 2014 Won the Barnes And Noble Discover Great New Writers Award (second place) 2014 Won the Betty Trask Award 2014 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2013 National Book Award - 5 Under 35 2013 The New York Times “100 Notable Books of 2013” 2013 Wallace Stegner Fellowship 2012 “Hitting Budapest” won The Caine Prize for African writing (African Booker) 2011 Truman Capote Fellowship (Cornell University) 2010
COLLEGE COMMON READING (We Need New Names)
Hollins University 2017 Salem College 2017 University of Michigan – Flint 2017
1 Stanford University 2016 Pacific Lutheran University 2016 Southern Methodist University 2014 Kalamazoo College 2014
PUBLICATIONS
“Those Ones Over There,” The Bare Life Review, Vol one 2018 “His Middle Name was not Jesus,” The Daily Assortment of Astonishing Things and other Stories. Ed. Chris Brazier. London: New Internationalist. 2016 “Clarity,” 1914-Goodbye to All That: Writers on the Conflict Between Life and Art. Ed. Lavinia Greenlaw. London: Pushkin Press 2014 We Need New Names, a novel 2013 “Diaspora Christmas,” The Africa Report December 2011 “The City: Bulawayo,” Newsweek September 2011 “In America,” Callaloo. Vol 34 Issue 3 2011 “Shamisos,” Writing Free. Ed. Irene Staunton. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press 2011 “Hitting Budapest,” The Boston Review Nov/Dec 2010 “Siphepheli,” Thaph’ Uluju. Ed. Barbara Makhalisa. Harare, Zimbabwe: Radiant Publishing Company 2010 “Snapshots,” New Writing from Africa 2009. Ed. Robin Malan. Cape Town, South Africa: Johnson and King James Books 2009 Poems. State of the Nation. Eds. Tinashe Mushakavanhu and David Nettleingham. Kent, UK: Conversation Paperpress 2009 “Flag,” The Warwick Review (UK), Vol. 3 No. 4 2009
SAMPLE READINGS/LECTURES/PANELS
“Out of Africa: Readings.” ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival. Jaipur, India 2019
“Notes from Glory.” STIAS Public Lecture. Stellenbosch University, South Africa. 2019
“Glory.” A reading from novel-in-progress. Harvard University. 2017
“Story as Historical Observation.” Essence Festival. Durban, South Africa. Panelists: Yewande Omatoso, Sindiwe Magona, Imraan Coovadia, and NoViolet Bulawayo. November 2016
Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series with Valeria Luiselli: book reading. Princeton University, NJ. October 2016
2 “Three Books.” A conversation with Elizabeth Tallent, Rebecca Solnit, and Justin Torres – Stanford University, CA. September 2016
Keynote speaker, Menlo College Graduation. Atherton, CA. May 2016
“World Textures – in Extremis.” International Literature Award Ceremony. Berlin, Germany. Panelists: Patrick Chamoiseau, Gilbert Gatore, and NoViolet Bulawayo. July 2015
Keynote speaker, The Annual College Language Association Banquet, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX April 2015
“Voice: Language in Literature.” Melbourne Writers Festival, Melbourne, Australia. Panelists: Maxine Beneba Clarke and NoViolet Bulawayo, Melinda Harvey, chair. August 2014.
NoViolet Bulawayo on We Need New Names, Ru Freeman on On Sal Mal Lane, and Daniel Alarcon on At Night We Walk in Circles: A panel. Miami Book Fair International, Miami. November 2013
“50 Shades of Feminism 1.” Open Book Festival, Cape Town, South Africa. Panelists: Rachel Holmes, Gillian Slovo, Kamila Shamsie, and NoViolet Bulawayo. September 2013
“Globalization: Is it Changing the Way We Think?” BBC, London, UK. Panelists: Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Ben Okri, and NoViolet Bulawayo. June 2013
WORK IN PROGRESS
Glory, a novel
Body, a play. Reading by the Princeton University Theater Department. 2017
EMPLOYMENT: Lecturer, English Department, Cornell University, 2009-12, Stanford University, 2014-2018
English 1134: Freshman Writing Seminar (FWS): Memoir and Memory Fall 2009 English 1134: FWS: Memoir and Memory Spring 2010
3 English 1111: FWS: Literature and Human Rights Fall 2010 English 2800: Creative Writing Fall 2010 English 1111: FWS: Literature and Human Rights Spring 2011 English 2810: Creative Writing Spring 2011 English 1111: FWS: Literature and Human Rights Fall 2011 English 2880: Inventing Nonfiction Fall 2011 English 1111: FWS: African Literature and Human Rights Spring 2012 English 1111: FWS: African American Autobiography Spring 2012 English 2880: Creative Writing Spring 2012 English 90: Fiction Writing Autumn 2014 English 90: Fiction Writing Winter 2015 English 90, 91: Fiction Writing, Creative Nonfiction Spring 2015 English 90: Fiction Writing Autumn 2015 English 190, 90: Intermediate Fiction Writing, Fiction Writing Spring 2016 English 90: Fiction writing Autumn 2017- Spring 2018
AFFILIATIONS
Academician, Folio Academy current Trustee, Writivism (Center for African Cultural Excellence) 2014-18 Advisor, Cornell Creative Writing Guild 2010-11 Judge: Youth Impact Literary Competition 2011 Associate Editor. Epoch. Department of English, Cornell University 2008-10
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