Yvette Lisa Ndlovu has been named among the five finalists for the DAG Prize for Literature, a new annual award that grants $20,000 to “an early-career prose writer whose work expands the possibilities for American writing.”
The prize, given by musicians Alyssa and Douglas Graham, seeks to champion innovation, and aims to support the second prose project of an under-recognized writer.
Honoured to be a finalist for the DAG Prize for prose writers 'whose work expands the possibilities for American writing.' Thank you to the DAG Foundation & congrats to all the finalists!" - Yvette Lisa Ndlovu via X
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu is a Zimbabwean sarungano. Her short story collection, Drinking from Graveyard Wells, won the Cornell University 2023 Philip Freund Prize for Creative Writing, and was shortlisted for the Ursula Le Guin Prize for Fiction, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Collection. She earned her B.A. at Cornell University and her M.F.A. at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.
She is currently working on her second book, Godsflower, an Afrosurrealist postcolonial fable set in New Zimbabwe, a fictional country haunted by its resurrected dictator. This project uses the narrative structure of Ngano (Zimbabwean fabulism) to chronicle the absurdities of living under an authoritarian regime while also imagining a world in which these regimes fall.
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