She was also educated in the US, moving there with her family when she was nine. “Our pandemic-ravaged world reminds us how connected our world has been for the last century or more – and this book points to the global nature of science fiction.”. [14][15] She was honored for fiction, the other recipients being Yiyun Li; Maria Tumarkin and Anne Boyer for non-fiction; Bhanu Kapil and Jonah Mixon-Webster for poetry; and Julia Cho and Aleshea Harris for drama. Serpell was born in Zambia and moved to the US as a child. (BookForum), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’, Devil on the Cross (NYR), Toni Morrison, God Help the Child (SF Chronicle), Dinaw Mengestu, All Our Names (SF Chronicle), Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country (SF Chronicle), V.S. New Zealand Festival of the Arts is brought to you by the energetic team of Tāwhiri, along with the generous support of our fantastic partners. Bottoms Up (Tin House). [8] The book was described in the journal Novel: A Forum on Fiction as "a bravura performance". Previous winners include Yoon Ha Lee, Ahmad Saadawi, and Anne Charnock. Namwali Serpell’s stupendous debut, The Old Drift, has been called ‘stealth sci-fi’; ‘Marquezian’, for its grand, epic sweep and magical realism, and a work of ‘Afro-futurism’. Triptych: Texas Pool Party (Triple Canopy). Originally established by the author Arthur C Clarke with the aim of promoting science fiction in Britain, the award goes to the best sci-fi novel of the year. Her first book of literary criticism, Seven Modes of Uncertainty, was published in 2014 by Harvard UP. Zo’ona (Caine Anthology 2016). The Sack (Africa39). Hats off. Namwali, who is a Professor of English at UC Berkley, speaks with Whiti Hereaka about the decade of work behind her much-acclaimed novel. Author Namwali Serpell has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, an annual British prize for science fiction, for her novel The Old Drift.. Serpell’s book beat out five others for the prize, including Charlie Jane Anders’ The City in the Middle of the Night and Kameron Hurley’s The Light Brigade. "[13], In March 2020 she was one of eight writers to be awarded a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize, one of the world's richest literary prizes, awarded annually, with each winner receiving $165,000. [4] When she was nine, her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States,[4] where Serpell was educated. “At last, a book that acknowledges that the African lives with the fantastic and mundane. In 2014, she was chosen as one of the Africa 39, a Hay Festival project to identify the most promising African writers under 40. Her short story “The Sack” (2015) won the Caine Prize in African Fiction, and her first novel, The Old Drift, was published to … "[16], Serpell won the 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in the Fiction category for her novel The Old Drift. Times’Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 2020. Namwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in San Francisco. ), A Sunburst Above a Receding Road (The Believer), Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King (cover, NYT Book Review), Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? @namwalien. Namwali Serpell won a 2020 Windham–Campbell Prize for Literature in Fiction. Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award 2011, Photos © Caine Prize 2015, © Caine Prize 2010, © Rona Jaffe Foundation Awards 2011. Take It (Freeman’s). Tade Thompson, who was last year’s winner, said the following of Serpell’s win: “At last, a book that acknowledges that the African lives with the fantastic and mundane. Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who lives and teaches in the United States. Namwali Serpell just shrugs when asked to explain why her debut novel, the 563-page epic The Old Drift, refuses to stay within the boundaries of one genre. Her first novel, The Old Drift (Hogarth, 2019), won the Anisfield–Wolf Book Award for Fiction “that confronts racism and explores diversity,” the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction, and the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 2020. October 15, 2020. The Arthur C. Clarke Award, named in honor of the eponymous author, is the United Kingdom’s most prestigious prize for science fiction first published in the UK. Namwali Serpell was born in 1980 in Lusaka, Zambia, to Robert Serpell and his wife. [10] Serpell's "On Black Difficulty: Toni Morrison and the Thrill of Imperiousness" won her the 2019 Brittle Paper Award for Essays & Think Pieces. [5] Serpell was the first Caine winner from Zambia. The Old Drift is everything fiction should be, and everything those of us who write should aspire to. "[22][21], CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (. In 2020, Serpell was the winner in the Belles-lettres category Grand Prix of Literary Associations 2019, for her debut novel The Old Drift.[2]. In April 2014 she was named on the 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. By Corinne Segal. At last, an African book of unarguable universality. Following three generations of three families, her fierce and beautiful writing is resonant of writers such as Gabriel García Márquez. Account (Enkare Review). In 2011, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. 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[9], Serpell is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby. UC Berkeley English. Her first novel, The Old Drift (Hogarth, 2019), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book prize for fiction “that confronts racism and explores diversity,” the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction, and the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 2020. Her nonfiction book, American Psycho Analysis, is forthcoming with Columbia University Press. “Those manuscripts definitely exist,” he said. [18][19][20] Serpell responded on Twitter on 25 September by saying that she had received news of the award "within an hour of hearing that the cops who killed Breonna Taylor weren't charged. Serpell has created something specifically Zambian and generally African at the same time. "[6], In 2014 she published Seven Modes of Uncertainty,[7] a critical work that examines "the relationship between literature's capacity to unsettle, perplex, and bewilder us, and literature's ethical value". The Living and the Dead (New Daughters of Africa). On a gray, spitting day in Venice last summer, I spent a morning strolling through the main exhibits of the Venice Biennale in the Arsenal. Whiti has been involved with Te Papa Tupu, an incubator programme for Māori writers, as a writer, a mentor and a judge. Namwali Serpell has won the UK’s top prize for science fiction, the Arthur C Clarke award, for her first novel The Old Drift, which judges described as “stealth sci-fi”.. By Rasheeda Saka. Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing (SF Chronicle), L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award Acceptance Speech. Just three of the 14 were British, according to Hotston. Reviewing it in The Guardian, Nadifa Mohamed wrote: "Namwali Serpell’s first novel is a rambunctious epic that traces the intertwined histories of three families over three generations. She is also co-editor, with Witi Ihimaera, of an anthology of Māori myths — Pūrākau. Her second book of essays, Stranger Faces, is forthcoming with Transit Books in Fall 2020. Author Namwali Serpell has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, an annual British prize for science fiction, for her novel The Old Drift.. Serpell’s book beat out five others for the prize, including Charlie Jane Anders’ The City in the Middle of the Night and Kameron Hurley’s The Light Brigade. "In 2014, she was chosen as one of the Africa 39, a Hay Festival project to identify the most promising African writers under 40. Will Williams (Disorder: Amazon Originals) . It was short listed for the L.A. Times’ Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction and long listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown in 2019. The Arthur C. Clarke Award, named in honor of the eponymous author, is the United Kingdom’s most prestigious prize for science fiction first published in the UK. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) from the International Institute of Modern Letters. Chigozie Obioma: An Orchestra of Minorities. In 2011, she received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a prize for beginning women writers. [17] On 23 September 2020, it was announced that The Old Drift had also won her the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the UK's top prize for science fiction. [15] Serpell stated: "I'm absolutely thrilled to receive this award and honored to join the company of these esteemed writers. Serpell, saying "fiction is not a competitive sport", announced she would share the $15,000 prize with the other shortlisted writers, Masande Ntshanga, F. T. Kola, Elnathan John, and Segun Afolabi.
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