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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

Novels
  • Nineveh (2011)
  • The Rock Alphabet (2004)
  • Shark's Egg (2000)
    • Short stories
  • Homing (2010) (collection)

    • Other short pieces have appeared in a variety of international publications, including:

  • "Homing" in The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2011)
  • "Promenade" in The Granta Book of the African Short Story (2011)
  • "Homing" in AGNI 72, Portfolio of African Fiction (2010)
  • "Falling" in Willesden Herald New Short Stories 4 (2010)
    • Essays

    Creative non-fiction by Rose-Innes includes:

  • "Semiprecious" in Homecoming, Granta Online (2010)
  • "Chan Chan at Break of Day" in Home Away (2009)
  • "Five sites" in A City Imagined (2006)
    • Translations
  • Alfabetul Pietrelor, Tritonic Books/ Alfabetul Pietrelor (translation of The Rock Alphabet, Romanian, 2007).
  • Dream Homes: Schnappschusse und Geschichten aus Kapstadt (collected essays and short stories, German, 2008).
  • "Promenade" in Naar de Stad: De mooiste korte verhalen van de 21ste eeuw, ed. A. Verbeke & S. van Hassel (Dutch, 2012)
  • "Poison" in the Albawtaka Review (Arabic, 2010)
  • "Haifischei" in Litprom Nr. 94 (Shark's Egg extract, German, 2007).
    • 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.
  • Nineveh was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Prize for Fiction and the M-Net Literary Awards.
  • Runner-up, Willesden Herald short story competition, 2010 for 'Falling'
  • Winner of the 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing for "Poison"
  • Winner of the 2007 Southern African PEN short-story award
  • Shortlisted, 2007 Caine Prize
  • Shortlisted, 2001 M-Net Literary Award for Shark's Egg

    • References

    Henrietta Rose-Innes Wikipedia
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