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          NoViolet Bulawayo is the winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for her novel We Need New Names....

          US-based Zimbabwe writer Elizabeth Zandile Tshele who goes by the pen name NoViolet Bulawayo is among 13 authors in the running for this.

        1. US-based Zimbabwe writer Elizabeth Zandile Tshele who goes by the pen name NoViolet Bulawayo is among 13 authors in the running for this.
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        3. NoViolet Bulawayo is the winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for her novel We Need New Names.
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          Interview

          Shortly after winning the 2009 PEN/Studzinski Literary Award, NoViolet Mhka Bulawayo talks with Mazwi, a Zimbabwean Journal, about her writing.

          Do you have a writing community, ie, other Zimbabwean or African writers you interact with or you find the place isolating and if so is this isolation good or bad?


          I'm in an MFA program so yes, I have a writing community. I have no interaction with Zimbabwean and African writers on a workshop level, so on that basis, I am "isolated." It's a double-edged sword—In the past I would crave that specific common ground that would come with interacting with writers from my own background, and that happened when I felt like my mates didn't "get" what I was trying to do.

          I'm over that now, not having that common ground means I have to forge a new one, and for me that is humanity. It means I have to stand on another level, to go beyond "Zimbabwean-ness" and