Explore NoViolet Bulawayo’s Booker Prize 2022 shortlisted novel Glory with your book club using our guide and discover why the judges said it was ‘a magical crossing of the African continent’.
NoViolet Bulawayo
NoViolet Bulawayo's debut novel, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2013. Her second novel, Glory, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
We Need New Names was also shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and won a Betty Trask Award, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, the Etisalat Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She has also won the Caine Prize for African Writing and a National Book Award’s ‘5 Under 35’. Bulawayo grew up in Zimbabwe and when she was 18 she moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan. She earned her MFA at Cornell University, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she taught fiction. She currently writes full-time, from wherever she finds herself.
Her second novel, Glory, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022.
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