Petina Gappah Archives - James Murua's Literature Blog

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 […]

May 10, 2016

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 […]

January 6, 2015

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 […]

March 28, 2013

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