NoViolet Bulawayo Gifts Fellowship to Writer Yewande Omotoso

From AfriPOP! Thu Apr 17 2014, 19:35:12

Demonstrating a benevolence that is not often seen or appreciated in the seemingly competitive world of novel-writing, the winner of the first Etisalat Prize for Literature, NoViolet Bulawayo, has gifted her colleague, and runner-up, Yewande Omotoso, the £10,000 fellowship that was part of her reward. Bulawayo won the Etisalat prize for her book We Need New Names and with it she won a four-month residency at the University of East [...]

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