Petina Gappah Archives - James Murua's Literature Blog

Petina Gappah will be the keynote speaker at the Heroe Book Fair 2022 which runs in Mombasa, Kenya from May […]

New Arabic translations presented at Sharjah International Book Fair 2021.

Arabic translations of novels by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Peter Kimani, Lola Shoneyin, and Petina Gappah were presented at the Sharjah […]

Petina Gappah was announced as one of the judges of the International Booker Prize 2022 today, July 14, 2021. The […]

Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Petina Gappah are two of the many delegates set to attend the International Publishers Association Africa […]

Ngugi Wa Thiong’o will be the headline guest at this year’s edition of Ake Festival 2016. Ngugi, who will sit […]

Petina Gappah received the Zimbabwe Achiever Award gong for services to Arts and Media in Harare North (London), UK on […]

The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist has been announced today and our Petina Gappah is sadly missing on it. […]

It seems quite appropriate that the longlist for the Baileys Women’s Prize for fiction would be announced today on International […]

Zimbabwean author, poet and commentator Chenjerai Hove passed on in Stavanger, Norway on Sunday. The author who was born in […]

We all loved Pettina Gappah’s first book An Elegy for Easterly which won the Guardian first book award in 2009. […]

Book: An Elegy for Easterly Author: Petina Gappah Publisher: Faber and Faber Year of publication: 2009 Number of pages: 273 […]

t was an evening to remember at the Book Cafe in Harare last night as Zambian born South African/Zimbabwean author […]