Petina Gappah
Zimbabwean writer, journalist and business lawyer
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Born 1971 · age 55
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Updated 2026-07-22
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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