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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.

Meshack Asare

Meshack Asare

Meshack Asare is one of Africa's top children's writers and illustrators, and has won numerous awards including The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. 1982 and the 1999 Toyota/Children's Literature Foundation Best Picture Story Book Illustrator's award, the 1999 Unesco First Prize for Children and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance.

Meshack Asare, born 1945 in Ghana, studied Fine Arts at the College of Art in Kumasi and taught in Ghana for 12 years between 1967 and 1979. During that period, he took an extension course in Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin.

Books authored by Meshack Asare

Cat in Search of a Friend Cat in Search of a Friend

Meshack Asare

ISBN 9789988550189 | 30 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2000 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Chipo and the Bird on the Hill Chipo and the Bird on the Hill

A Tale of Ancient Zimbabwe

Meshack Asare

ISBN 9789988550448 | 35 pages | 100 x 100 mm | Colour Illustrations | 1984 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

The Cross Drums The Cross Drums

Meshack Asare

ISBN 9789988647063 | 105 pages | 203 x 127 mm | B/W Illustrations | 2008 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Hardback

Kwajo and the Brassman's Secret Kwajo and the Brassman's Secret

A Tale of old Ashanti Wisdom and Gold

Meshack Asare

ISBN 9789988550431 | 45 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

L'appel de Sosu (Sosu's Call)

Meshack Asare

ISBN 9789988550486 | 37 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

The Magic Goat The Magic Goat

Meshack Asare

ISBN 9789988550103 | 37 pages | 297 x 210 mm | Colour Illustrations | 1997 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Noma's Sand Noma's Sand

A Tale from Lesotho

Meshack Asare

ISBN 9789988550561 | 38 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2002 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

Sosu's Call Sosu's Call

Meshack Asare

ISBN 9789988550097 | 37 pages | 140 x 250 mm | Colour Illustrations | 2001 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Paperback

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