Namwali Serpell
Zambian-American scholar of English, feminist academic, and writer · Zambia · On the map · Writers · Born 1980 · age 46
Namwali Serpell is an American and Zambian writer who teaches in the United States. In April 2014, she was named on Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with the potential and talent to define trends in African literature.
Namwali Serpell is read about 33 times a day, in 11 languages.
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Her short story "The Sack" won the 2015 Caine Prize for African fiction in English. In 2020, Serpell won the Belles-lettres category Grand Prix of Literary Associations 2019 for her debut novel The Old Drift.
