![]() ![]() It won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2013). It was the winner of the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature (2013), and won the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for debut work of fiction. We Need New Names was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize (2013), the Guardian First Book Award shortlist (2013), and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award finalist (2013). NoViolet Bulawayo is a writer who takes delight in language." ![]() ![]() This is a story with moral power and weight, it has the artistry to refrain from moral commentary. when the Chair of Judges, Hisham Matar, said: "The language of ‘Hitting Budapest’ crackles. ![]() The first chapter of the book, "Hitting Budapest", initially presented as a story in the Boston Review, won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing. A coming-of-age story, We Need New Names tells of the life of a young girl named Darling, first as a 10-year-old in Zimbabwe, navigating a world of chaos and degradation with her friends, and later as a teenager in the Midwest United States, where a better future seems about to unfold when she goes to join an aunt working there. We Need New Names is the 2013 debut novel of expatriate Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo. ![]()
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