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Petina Gappah

Petina Gappah studied law at the Universities of Zimbabwe, Craz in Austria and Cambridge. Her short fiction is featured in two anthologies, Laughing Now and Women Writing Zimbabwe, both published in 2008 by Weaver Press, Zimbabwe. In 2007, she came second in a SADC-wide short story contest judged by J.M. Coetzee. She lives in Geneva, Switzerland with her son Kush, where she works as a lawyer for the ACWL, an organisation that advises developing counties on international trade law. Her debut novel An Elegy for Easterly will be published by Faber and Faber in April 2009.

Visit Petina's blog here: http://petinagappah.blogspot.com/

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Faber and Faber (United States) and Faber Ltd. (United Kingdom) have acquired the world English-language rights to two books by Zimbabwean writer and lawyer, Petina Gappah. The two books - a collection of short stories and a novel - are set in a contemporary Zimbabwe. The collection of short stories, An Elegy of Elderly is going to be published first. It will be released in April 2009, in the United Kingdom, and in June of the same year, in the United States. The novel, The Book of Memory, is scheduled to appear in 2010. Her short fiction is featured in two anthologies, Laughing Now and Women Writing Zimbabwe, both published in 2008 by Weaver Press, Zimbabwe.

Irene Staunton

Irene Staunton began work in publishing in London with John Calder publishers in the 1970s. Returning to Zimbabwe after its independence, she was an editor at the Government Curriculum Development Unit. In 1987, she co-established Baobab Books, which rapidly acquired a reputation as an exciting literary publisher. In 1999, she left Baobab to co-found Weaver Press. She was also a long-standing editor of the Heinemann African Writers Series.

Books edited by Irene Staunton

Laughing Now

New Stories from Zimbabwe

Edited by Irene Staunton

ISBN 9781779220684 | 124 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2007 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Women Writing Zimbabwe

Edited by Irene Staunton

ISBN 9781779220738 | 148 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2008 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Writing Now

More Stories from Zimbabwe

Edited by Irene Staunton

ISBN 9781779220431 | 324 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2005 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Writing Still - New stories from Zimbabwe

Edited by Irene Staunton

ISBN 9781779220189 | 276 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2003 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

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