Zambian writer, Namwali Serpell
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Richest Literary Prize in the world.
7 other authors
Anonymous
R just under three million
- Zambian writer, Namwali Serpell has been named as one
of eight Windham Campbell Prize winners for the year 2020
for her body of work
- Her short story “The Sack” won the Caine Prize in African
Fiction in 2015, and her first novel, The Old Drift, was
published to global acclaim.
- The Old Drift tells the story of three families—with people
of African, European, and Indian descent—living in Zambia
over the course of two hundred years
- Serpell is an associate professor of English at the
University of California, Berkeley
- The Windham-Campbell Prizes are administered by Yale's
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
7 other authors
Anonymous
R just under three million
- Zambian writer, Namwali Serpell has been named as one
of eight Windham Campbell Prize winners for the year 2020
for her body of work
- Her short story “The Sack” won the Caine Prize in African
Fiction in 2015, and her first novel, The Old Drift, was
published to global acclaim.
- The Old Drift tells the story of three families—with people
of African, European, and Indian descent—living in Zambia
over the course of two hundred years
- Serpell is an associate professor of English at the
University of California, Berkeley
- The Windham-Campbell Prizes are administered by Yale's
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
