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[1] for her speculative-fiction story "Poison".[2] 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.
Rose-Innes 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; , Lausanne; the , Sylt; Georgetown University; the University of Cape Town's Centre for Creative Writing; , 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.[3] She is currently studying towards a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
Works[]
- Novels
- Green Lion (2015)
- Nineveh (2011)
- The Rock Alphabet (2004)
- Shark's Egg (2000)
Nineveh has been translated into French[4] and Spanish[5] (both 2015), and Green Lion has appeared in French as L'Homme au Lion (2016).[6] 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]
- 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[]
- Short story 'Sanctuary' awarded second place in the 2012 BBC (Inter)national Short Story Award.[8]
- Nineveh shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Prize for Fiction and the M-Net Literary Awards.
- Winner of the 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing[1] for "Poison"[2]
- Winner of the 2007 Southern African PEN short-story award [9]
- Shortlisted, 2007 Caine Prize
- Shortlisted, 2001 M-Net Literary Award for Shark's Egg
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Lindesay Irvine, "Henrietta Rose-Innes wins £10,000 Caine prize", The Guardian, 8 July 2008.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Prize-winning fiction: Apocalypse now – Readers reward horrible histories", The Economist, 10 July 2008.
- ^ Fellowships, GIPCA.
- ^ http://www.editionszoe.ch/livre/ninive
- ^ http://tienda.almadia.com.mx/libro/ninive_794
- ^ http://www.editionszoe.ch/livre/l-homme-au-lion
- ^ http://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/publikationen/literatur/dream-homes-schnappschuesse-und-kurzgeschichten-aus-kapstadt~no3070/
- ^ Henrietta Rose-Innes page at Blake Friedmann.
- ^ Ben – Editor, "Henrietta Rose-Innes Wins $5,000 SA PEN Award", Books Live, 26 April 2007.
External links[]
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Alumni of the University of East Anglia
- Caine Prize winners
- South African science fiction writers
- South African fantasy writers
- Women science fiction and fantasy writers
- South African women novelists
- South African women short story writers
- South African short story writers