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Petina Gappah (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper. In 2017 she had a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship in Berlin.

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rdfs:label	Petina Gappah (ca) Petina Gappah (de) Petina Gappah (es) Petina Gappah (fr) Petina Gappah (en) Petina Gappah (sv)
rdfs:comment	Petina Gappah (Zambia, 1971) es una abogada y escritora zimbabuense.Ella escribe en inglés, aunque también recurre a su lengua materna, el shona, una lengua bantú. Actualmente reside en Berlín, donde tiene una beca del programa Berlin Artists-in-Residence. En 2016, fue nombrada African Literary Person of the Year por Brittle Paper. (es) Petina Gappah (geboren 1971 in Rhodesien) ist eine simbabwische Autorin, die in englischer Sprache schreibt. (de) Petina Gappah, née en 1971, est une juriste et une romancière zimbabwéenne, dressant un tableau à travers ses fictions de l'histoire sociale contemporaine de son pays. Elle écrit en anglais, mais elle s'appuie également sur le shona, sa première langue. (fr) Petina Gappah (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper. In 2017 she had a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship in Berlin. (en) Petina Gappah, född 1971 i provinsen Copperbelt i Zambia, är en zimbabwisk jurist, författare, krönikör och bloggare. Gappah har studerat juridik vid , University of Cambridge och Universität Graz. Hon har varit bosatt i Genève där hon arbetat som advokat, men flyttade tillbaka till Zimbabwe 2010. Hon skriver krönikor för sydafrikanska Sunday Times.Gappahs debutbok, novellsamlingen Sorgesång för Easterly (An Elegy for Easterly, 2009, svensk översättning Helena Hansson 2010), utspelar sig i hemlandet Zimbabwe och belönades med . År 2015 kom romanen Memorys bok (The Book of Memory, svensk översättning Helena Hansson 2017). (sv) Petina Gappah (Zimbàbue, 1971) és una escriptora zimbabuesa. Escriu en anglès i en xona, la seva primera llengua. El primer llibre de Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly, un recull de contes, col·lecció d'història, va ser nominat al , el major premi per a contes. El llibre ha estat descrit com "una col·lecció d'històries sobre cada capa de la cultura zimbabuesa: des de l'elit a la gent peculiar, els completament bojos i els nens que corren pel carrer." El llibre va ser publicat per l'abril de 2009 al Regne Unit i el juny de 2009 als Estats Units. Va guanyar el el 2009, moment en què va fer pública la seva objecció a ser etiquetada pel seu editor (i subsegüentment Amazon) com "la veu de Zimbàbue" i va comentar en una entrevista: "És molt preocupant per a mi, perquè escriure d'un lloc que no és (ca)
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birth place	Copperbelt Province Zambia
birth place	Copperbelt Province, Zambia (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Zimbabwean women lawyers School of Advanced Study OmVärlden Prix Femina étranger Berlin Anita Sethi DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program University of Cambridge University of Graz University of Zimbabwe David Livingstone Birthplace Museum Jacob Wainwright Maya Jaggi 1971 births Living people Copperbelt Province McKitterick Prize National Arts Merit Awards Orwell Prize 20th-century Zimbabwean women writers 20th-century Zimbabwean writers 21st-century Zimbabwean women writers 21st-century Zimbabwean writers Zimbabwean novelists Zimbabwean short story writers Geneva Granta The New York Times The Observer Los Angeles Times Shona language Zambia Zimbabwe Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 21st-century short story writers Alumni of the University of Cambridge

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