Times Book Prize for first fiction and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. But we hoped against hope that we had turned a corner.”īack in California, Bulawayo began making plans to return to Zimbabwe and see for herself what was happening “on the ground.” Perhaps she could write a nonfiction book about this moment “too unbelievable to ignore”? Her first novel, “ We Need New Names,” had been an overwhelming success, winner of the 2013 L.A. It was complicated, though, because we knew his deputy was going to take over. “There was so much celebration, just the joy of seeing the dictatorship come to an end the way it did. “There was a sense of shock and disbelief because he had seemed so untouchable for the longest time,” she recalls over a recent Zoom call from her “first home” in Zimbabwe. Bulawayo, 40, was at home in Oakland, where she lives while teaching at Stanford. 14, 2017, novelist NoViolet Bulawayo woke up to the news that Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s ruler for nearly four decades, had been deposed in a coup. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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