Guest of the ilb 2001
Yvonne Vera was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in 1964.
She studied at York University, Toronto, Canada and published her first
volume of short stories in 1992. Since then she published four
numerously awarded novels, which have been translated into several
languages, including Swedish, Danish and German. For her second novel
»Without a Name« she received the Zimbabwe Book Publishers’ Award
in 1995. »Under the Tongue« won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa
Region). In 1999 she was given the Swedish literary award The Voice of
Africa. »Opening Spaces: An Anthology of contemporary African
Women’s Writing« edited by Yvonne Vera was published in the same
year. Her last novel »Butterfly Burning« (1998) was translated into
German in 2001. Yvonne Vera was the director of the National Gallery of
Zimbabwe in Bulawayo. In 2005, she died in Toronto from meningitis.
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