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Petina Gappah

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Gender Female
Born Copperbelt Province
Zambia
Job Lawyer
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Novelist
Education University of Cambridge
St. Dominic's Chishawasha
University of Graz
University of Zimbabwe
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Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. She is currently based in Berlin, where she has a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper.

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