Petina Gappah
Use attributes for filter ! | |
Gender | Female |
---|---|
Born | Copperbelt Province |
Zambia | |
Job | Lawyer |
Author | |
Novelist | |
Education | University of Cambridge |
St. Dominic's Chishawasha | |
University of Graz | |
University of Zimbabwe | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1663466 |
Petina Gappah Life story
Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. She is currently based in Berlin, where she has a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper.