An Elegy for Easterly Longlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize

Petina Gappah's An Elegy for Easterly has been longlisted for the Guardian First Book Prize. An Elegy is also on the shortlist of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.

The full list of contenders:

The Secret Lives of Buildings Edward Hollis

Direct Red Gabriel Weston

The Strangest Man Graham Farmelo

A Swamp Full of Dollars Michael Peel

The Rehearsal Eleanor Catton

The Wilderness Samantha Harvey

The Girl With Glass Feet Ali Shaw

The Selected Works of TS Spivet Reif Larsen

An Elegy for Easterly Petina Gappah

The Missing Siân Hughes

The last time a Zimbabwean writer won the Guardian Fiction Prize was in 1979, when Dambudzo Marechera got it for House of Hunger.

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James Kilgore said…
I find your blog and your material on Zimbabwean writers and politics very interesting. I'll keep following you. I lived in Zimbabwe 1982-91 and have also just written a novel, We Are All Zimbabweans Now, published by Umuzi in Cape Town. Your blog is useful to help stay in touch with things. Keep up the good work.
James Kilgore
Illinois
USA
www.weareallzimbabweansnow.com
September 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM
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