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          NoViolet was born and raised in Zimbabwe.

        1. NOVIOLET BULAWAYO grew up in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
        2. NoViolet Bulawayo was born and raised in Zimbabwe and now lives in the United States, where she is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
        3. Born Elizabeth Zandile Tshele in , the year after Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe its first prime minister, Bulawayo.
        4. We spoke to NoViolet Bulawayo about the influence of her grandmother's storytelling, Orwell comparisons and her love of Post-it notes.

          5. NoViolet Bulawayo was born and raised in Zimbabwe and now lives in the United States, where she is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University....

          NoViolet Bulawayo

          Zimbabwean author (born 1981)

          NoViolet Bulawayo is the pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele (born 12 October 1981), a Zimbabwean author.[1] In 2012, the National Book Foundation named her a "5 under 35" honoree.[2] She was named one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by New African magazine in 2014.[3] Her debut novel, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the 2013 Booker Prize, and her second novel, Glory, was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, making her "the first Black African woman to appear on the Booker list twice".[4][5]

          Life

          Bulawayo was born in Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe, and attended Njube High School and later Mzilikazi High School for her A-levels.[6] She completed her college education in the United States, studying at Kalamazoo Valley Community College,[7] and earning bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Texas A&M University-Commerce and Southe