Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu (born 1977) is a Zimbabwe-born novelist and filmmaker.[1]

Background

She was born and partly grew up in the city of Bulawayo. A few months after she was born, Ndlovu's family moved to Sweden as political refugees, and this is where she spent the formative years of her life. The family then moved to the United States, and returned to Zimbabwe after 1980 when the country had attained its independence. She attended Girls College and thereafter went to the US to pursue her university studies in Boston, Massachusetts (Emerson College); Athens, Ohio (Ohio University) and Palo Alto, California (Stanford University).[2] She spent 18 years in the US, before she decided to move back to Africa where she lived between South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Writing career

Ndlovu's fiction has gained critical acclaim since she entered the scene in 2018. Her debut book, The Theory of Flight (2018)[3] was soon followed by The History of Man (2020). The two books have won praise, made it on shortlists, and earned their author places at prestigious fellowships around the world.[4][5] Besides creative writing, Ndlovu is a trained literary scholar.[6][7] She is also a filmmaker, her films have premiered at the Zanzibar International Film Festival among others.[8][9]

Awards and honours

Publications

  • The Theory of Flight (Penguin Random House, 2018)[13]
  • The History of Man (Penguin Random House, 2020)[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Q&A with Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu". CatalystPress. 2021-01-13. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  2. ↑ "Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu | Modern Thought & Literature". mtl.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  3. ↑ "In Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu's debut novel there is no distinction between the real and the magical, writes Kate Sidley". Sunday Times Books LIVE @ Sunday Times Books LIVE. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  4. ↑ "Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu in conversation with Drew Shaw in her hometown of Bulawayo, April 2021". Centre for English Excellence - Bulawayo. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  5. ↑ "AUTHOR SIPHIWE GLORIA NDLOVU IS A FORCE OF NATURE IN LITERARY WORLD". De Beer Necessities. 2021-02-02. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  6. ↑ "On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer". Literary Hub. 2021-01-13. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  7. ↑ "'Fiction can save us from ourselves' - Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  8. ↑ Tête-à-Tête with Siphiwe Ndlovu moderated by Marlene Schneider #ABF 2019, archived from the original on 2021-11-01, retrieved 2021-11-01
  9. ↑ "Murmures | Africultures : Dhow Awards du Zanzibar International Film Festival". Africultures (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  10. ↑ "Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu - The Miles Morland Foundation". 27 February 2019. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  11. ↑ "[The JRB Daily] Terry Kurgan and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu win the 2019 Sunday Times Literary Awards". The Johannesburg Review of Books. 2019-09-06. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  12. ↑ "[britllepaper] 3 African Authors Awarded the $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu and Emmanuel Iduma". brittelpaper.com. 2022-03-29. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  13. ↑ Ndlovu, Siphiwe Gloria (2018-08-01). The Theory of Flight. Penguin Random House South Africa. ISBN 978-1-4152-1011-6.
  14. ↑ Ndlovu, Siphiwe Gloria (2022-01-11). The History of Man. Catalyst Press. ISBN 978-1-946395-56-6.
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