Books
Novuyo Elated by Etisalat Prize Nomination
Budding author, Novuya Rosa Tshuma is thrilled to have her book ‘Shadows’ which is a collection of short stories, nominated for the Etisalat Prize for Literature.
Budding author, Novuya Rosa Tshuma is thrilled to have her book ‘Shadows’ which is a collection of short stories, nominated for the Etisalat Prize for Literature.
The Book Café will on Thursday November 6 host a mbira discussion based on Mhoze Chikowore's new book 'African music, Power and Being: Colonial Zimbabwe'.
"You guys need some magic in your poetry, you just do not have it. You go around vomiting words. Go back to the classics and study how things are done. I am sorry to insult you but I think insulting you is the best form of motivation."
Batsirai Chigama has a gift for words. They come together in her head in poetic ways that language teachers cannot have taught her, but that only drops of magical divine gifting must have made possible.
The Zimbabwe German Society (ZGS) will on Thursday September 25 launch the ZGS Book club.
The book industry has suffered calamitously from the national economic meltdown of the turn of the century as well as a rampant book piracy which has culminated in the creation of a parallel "mafia economy" run by intellectual cynical book thieves.
#LITERATURE For many decades now, the issue of bullying has been a talking point in many local schools. Though many measures have been tried to root out this unruly behavior, to a greater extent they have failed as many still fall victim to its perpetrators.
#LITERATURE All is set for the Zimbabwe International Bulawayo Book Fair (ZIBF) which will run from March 28 to 29, 2014 at the Large City Hall.
#INTWASA Its that time of the year when story writers get to battle it out for a cool $500 in the Intwasa Short Story competition.
#LITERATURE Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo, real name Elizabeth Zandile Tshele won the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature for debut fiction, for her novel ‘We Need New Names’, in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday February 23, 2014.