NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo is the pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele, a Zimbabwean writer who was born in 1981 and grew up in Bulawayo. Her debut novel, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2013. Her second novel, Glory, uses a chorus of animal narrators to follow a nation after its long-serving leader is overthrown, and it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize again in 2022. She earned her MFA at Cornell University and has taught fiction writing at Cornell and Stanford.