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Henrietta Rose-Innes

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Biography

Henrietta Rose-Innes (born 14 September 1971) 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. Rose-Innes has been a Fellow in Literature at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (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. She is a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

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Short story ‘Sanctuary’ awarded second place in the 2012 BBC (Inter)national Short Story Award. Nineveh shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Prize for Fiction and the M-Net Literary Awards. 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

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