Henrietta Rose-Innes
Henrietta Rose-Innes | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Occupations | Novelist and short-story writer |
| Awards | Caine Prize for African Writing (2008) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Cape Town University of the Witwatersrand[1] University of East Anglia |
| Thesis | Edgeland encounters in the South African city : stone plant: a novel (2019) |
Henrietta Rose-Innes (born 14 September 1971) is a South African novelist and short-story writer. She was the 2008 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing[2] for her speculative-fiction story "Poison".[3] Her novel Nineveh was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Prize for Fiction and the M-Net Literary Awards. In September of that year her story "Sanctuary" was awarded second place in the 2012 BBC (Inter)national Short Story Award.
Background
[edit | edit source]Rose-Innes was "born and bred" in Cape Town, South Africa.[4]
She has been a Fellow in Literature at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2007–08) and has held residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center; Chateau de Lavigny, Lausanne; the kunst:raum sylt quelle, Sylt; Georgetown University; the University of Cape Town's Centre for Creative Writing; Caldera Arts Center, Oregon; and Hawthornden Castle Writer's Retreat, Scotland. She is a 2012 Gordon Fellow at the Gordon Institute for Creative and Performing Arts (GIPCA), University of Cape Town.[5] She has a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.[6]
Works
[edit | edit source]- Novels
- Shark's Egg (2000)
- The Rock Alphabet (2004)
- Nineveh (2011)
- Green Lion (2015)
The Rock Alphabet has been published in Romanian (2007). Dream Homes: Schnappschüsse und Geschichten aus Kapstadt, collected essays and short stories, was published in German in 2008.[7] Nineveh has been translated into French[8] and Spanish[9] (both 2015), and Green Lion has appeared in French as L'Homme au Lion (2016).[10]
- Short stories
- Homing (2010) (collection)
Other short pieces have appeared in a variety of international publications, including The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2011), The Granta Book of the African Short Story (2011) and Granta online.
- Compilations
- Nice Times! A Book of South African Pleasures and Delights (compiled and edited by Rose-Innes, 2006).
Awards
[edit | edit source]- Winner of the South African English Olympiad
- Shortlisted, 2001 M-Net Literary Award for Shark's Egg
- Shortlisted, 2007 Caine Prize
- Winner of the 2007 Southern African PEN short-story award [11]
- Winner of the 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing[2] for "Poison"[3][12]
- Nineveh was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Prize for Fiction and the M-Net Literary Awards.
- Short story "Sanctuary" awarded second place in the 2012 BBC (Inter)national Short Story Award.[13]
See also
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- ^ Henrietta Rose-Innes page at Blake Friedmann.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- Alumni of the University of East Anglia
- Caine Prize winners
- South African fantasy writers
- South African science fiction writers
- South African short story writers
- South African women novelists
- South African women short story writers
- University of Cape Town alumni
- University of the Witwatersrand alumni
- Women science fiction and fantasy writers