Henrietta Rose-Innes
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.
Henrietta Rose-Innes | |
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| Born | |
| Occupation(s) | 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) |
Background edit
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
- 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
- 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 edit
References edit
- ^ "Henrietta Rose-Innes". Akademie Schloss Solitude. 26 March 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
- ^ a b Irvine, Lindesay (8 July 2008). "Henrietta Rose-Innes wins £10,000 Caine prize". The Guardian.
- ^ a b "Prize-winning fiction: Apocalypse now – Readers reward horrible histories", The Economist, 10 July 2008.
- ^ de Chamberet, Georgia (12 October 2017). "Interview Henrietta Rose-Innes, author". BookBlast. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
- ^ Fellowships, GIPCA.
- ^ Rose-Innes, Henrietta (1 August 2018). Edgeland encounters in the South African city : stone plant: a novel (doctoral thesis). University of East Anglia.
- ^ . www.akademie-solitude.de. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014.
- ^ "Editions ZOE / Ninive / Henrietta Rose-Innes".
- ^ "Unnamed Press to launch Henrietta Rose-Innes in the US this year". Blake Friedmann. 14 March 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
- ^ "Editions ZOE / l'Homme au lion / Henrietta Rose-Innes".
- ^ Ben – Editor, "Henrietta Rose-Innes Wins $5,000 SA PEN Award", Books Live, 26 April 2007.
- ^ Théron, Helen (22 July 2008). "Rose-Innes on the winning trail with Poison". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
- ^ Henrietta Rose-Innes page at Blake Friedmann.
External links edit
- Official website
- Zadok, Rachel (27 May 2015). "An Interview With Henrietta Rose-Innes On The Relationship Between Humans And Non-Humans, Writing And Home". Short Story Day Africa. Retrieved 14 January 2024.