Did Gloria Naylor and Norman Rush both write short novels about 1980's Botswana?
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Gloria Naylor Gloria Naylor (January 25, 1950 – September 28, 2016) was an American novelist, known for her book "The Women of Brewster Place".
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Norman Rush Norman Rush (born October 24, 1933, San Francisco, California) is an American writer whose introspective novels and short stories are set in Botswana in the 1980s.
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty is a collection of short stories by Eudora Welty, first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1980. Its first paperback edition (Harvest Books) won a 1983 U.S. National Book Award.
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Lenyeletse Seretse Lenyeletse Seretse (25 June 19203 January 1983) was Vice-President of Botswana from 1980 until his death on 3 January 1983. From Northern Botswana, Seretse was appointed Vice-President to placate his fellow Northerners following the assumption of Southerner Quett Masire to the Presidency.
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California Molefe California Molefe (born 12 March 1980) is a Botswana runner who won a silver medal in 400 metres at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Moscow, becoming the first Botswana athlete to win a major international medal.
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Blue Shoes and Happiness Blue Shoes and Happiness is the seventh in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Gaborone, Botswana, and featuring the Motswana protagonist Precious Ramotswe.
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Sheila Tlou Sheila Dinotshe Tlou is a Botswana specialist in HIV/AIDS and women's health, and a nursing educator. She was Minister of Health from 2004 to 2008.
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Morality for Beautiful Girls Morality for Beautiful Girls is the third detective novel in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Gaborone, Botswana. The novel features the Motswana protagonist Mma Precious Ramotswe.
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The Word of a Gentleman The Word of a Gentleman (1981) (later retitled "Undercut") was the third of five novels written by Peter Niesewand, the South African journalist who spent 73 days in solitary confinement for his coverage of Ian Smith's government in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Set in the fictional former British colony of St David's Island, it has no principal protagonists beyond the corrupt trio of Claud Montrose, Alec Clifton, and Stephen Luther, but the subversive influence of the American agent Clive Lyle is progressively revealed as the story unfolds. The fate of the unjustly imprisoned Stephen Ayer and his wife Nora are the focus of many chapters (and the book opens with a quotation from Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"); these reflect Niesewand's detention by Desmond Lardner-Burke under P. K. van der Byl and Smith, and his subsequent deportation, leaving behind his wife of three years, Nonie Niesewand (née Fogarty).
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Gloria Jahoda Gloria Jahoda (October 6, 1926 – January 13, 1980) was an American author of fiction and non-fiction, including literature for young readers.
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Dianne Warren Dianne Warren (born August 28, 1950 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian novelist, dramatist and short story writer, who lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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June Arnold June Arnold (October 27, 1926 – March 11, 1982) was an American novelist and publisher, known for her novel "Sister Gin" and the posthumous novel "Baby Houston". Arnold's own writing, such as "Sister Gin", and the books she published through her press, Daughters, Incorporated, focused on telling the stories of lesbian lives and relationships.
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Lindsay Armstrong Lindsay Armstrong is a popular South African-Australian writer of over 65 romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon's since 1981. Armstrong was born and raised in South Africa, and married a New Zealand-born man who worked in West Africa. Their first three children were born in South Africa, they had other two children, one in London, England, and one in Australia. She currently lives in Australia.
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Gregory Blake Smith Gregory Blake Smith (born 1951), is an American novelist and short story writer. His novel, "The Divine Comedy of John Venner", was named a Notable Book of 1992 by "The New York Times Book Review" and his short story collection "The Law of Miracles" won the 2010 Juniper Prize for Fiction and the 2012 Minnesota Book Award.
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Lisanne Norman Lisanne Norman (born 15 February 1951 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a science fiction author. She is best known as the author of The Sholan Alliance series. She was trained as a teacher.
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Cynthia Holz Cynthia Holz (born 1950 in New York City, United States) is an American-born Canadian author. She graduated in English in 1971 from Queens College, City University of New York. She moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1976 while working as the Canadian correspondent for Business Week magazine. She began publishing short stories in 1980 in literary journals and anthologies such as The Malahat Review and The Fiddlehead. She has written essays and book reviews for The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa Citizen, Quill & Quire and The National Post. She has published five novels and one collection of short stories. Her latest novel, "Benevolence", was released in Spring 2011 by Knopf Canada.
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The Tenth Man (novel) The Tenth Man (1985) is a short novel by the British novelist Graham Greene.
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Tekkatho Phone Naing Tekkatho Phone Naing (Burmese: တက္ကသိုလ် ဘုန်းနိုင် , 16 January 1930 – 2002) was a famous Burmese writer, primarily known for lovelorn stories that were most popular in the 1950s to 1970s. His "sad" stories still represent some of the best popular Burmese story writing in the postwar era.
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New Scotland, Mpumalanga New Scotland is a farming region in the former Republic of Transvaal bordering Swaziland, which was settled about 1866 and promoted by Alexander McCorkindaleWikitree profile for emigrants from Scotland and the Natal Colony. After the death of McCorkindale in 1872 who was the fledgling community's inspirer, the grand plans of an industrial and commercial centre faltered and many of the Scots moved elsewhere to the Diamond rush in Kimberley and the gold rush of the Witwaterand. The area is commonly misty reminding the early visitors of Scotland.
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Victor Kelleher Victor Kelleher (born 1939) is an Australian author. Kelleher was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a Masters from St Andrew's University and a PhD in English Literature from The University of South Africa has taught in Africa, New Zealand and Australia. While in New Zealand, he began writing part-time, prompted by homesickness for Africa. He moved to Australia in 1976, with his South African wife, Alison, and was Associate Professor at the University of New England, in Armidale, New South Wales, before moving to Sydney to write full-time. Many of the books he has written have been based on his childhood and his travellings in Africa.
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Goa, Botswana Goa is a small town in Botswana. It lies near the Namibian border, near the Caprivi Strip, and about 11 kilometres from Shakawe which is also the nearest airport.
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Bessie Head Bessie Amelia Emery Head, known as Bessie Head (6 July 1937 – 17 April 1986), though born in South Africa, is usually considered Botswana's most influential writer. She wrote novels, short fiction and autobiographical works.