Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper. In 2017 she had a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship in Berlin.
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About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1971 · age 55
Written about in
11 languages
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