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Petina Gappah
Writer

Petina Gappah

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Writing Zimbabwean lives in An Elegy for Easterly.

An Elegy for Easterly · The Book of Memory

Born
1971
Birthplace
Copperbelt Province

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Petina Gappah

Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer and lawyer whose English-language fiction also draws on Shona.

Early life

Zambia and Zimbabwe

Born in Zambia and raised in Zimbabwe.

Legal education

Studied at the University of Zimbabwe, Graz and Cambridge.

Career

  1. 1998

    Geneva

    Worked in international law.

  2. 2006

    Focused writing

    Began submitting stories through an online writers’ community.

  3. 2009

    First collection

    Published An Elegy for Easterly.

Selected work

An Elegy for Easterly

A collection of short stories.

The Book of Memory

Her first novel.

Beyond work

School writing

Published a story in her secondary-school magazine at fourteen.

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