Name Henrietta Rose-Innes | Role Novelist | |
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Awards The Caine Prize for African Writing Books Shark's Egg, The Rock Alphabet, Nineveh, Homing, The BBC International Short Stor |
Henrietta Rose Innes Green Lion, a novel
Henrietta Rose-Innes is a South African novelist and short-story writer. She was the 2008 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing for her speculative-fiction story "Poison". 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.
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Rose-Innes has been a Fellow in Literature at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgarteco (2007–08) and has held residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center; Chateau de Lavigny, Lausanne; the kunst:raum sylt quelle, Sylt; Georgetown University; the University of Cape Town's Centre for Creative Writing; Caldera Arts Center, 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.
Works
Other short pieces have appeared in a variety of international publications, including:
Creative non-fiction by Rose-Innes includes: