NoViolet has been named among the 6 shortlisted for this years Man Booker prize award for her novel ‘We Need New Names’ .
The award prize which carries a prize of £50,000 will be competing against 5 other British, Canadian, Irish , Indian -Americans authors also nominated for the award.
This will be the first time to have a Zimbabwean up for this award.
Zimbabwean NoViolet Bulawayo shortlisted for 2013 Man booker Prize for Fiction.
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