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.
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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.
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