Events
2023 Carnegie Circle Event
An Evening with
NoViolet Bulawayo
Moderated by Alan Michael Parker
Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English
Davidson College
The most translated author in modern Zimbabwean history, NoViolet Bulawayo is the first Black African Woman to be selected for the Booker List twice, and is one of only two African writers to be listed for both her debut and follow-up novel. Bulawayo grew up in Zimbabwe and earned her MFA from Cornell University, where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She has also held fellowships at Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Stellenbosch, and the University of Johannesburg.
Monday, March 27
Cocktail Reception: 6 – 7 pm
Program: 7 – 8 pm
ImaginOn Theater, 300 E. Seventh Street, Charlotte, NC
Few writers possess a literary voice as inimitable as Bulawayo’s…[The] dazzling voices of [Glory] will draw you deep into its ambitious and mystifying heart.”
—Vulture
A deeply felt and fiercely written debut novel…. The voice Ms. Bulawayo has fashioned for [Darling] is utterly distinctive—by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative.”
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
