NoViolet Bulawayo
Born
in Zimbabwe
October 12, 1981
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We Need New Names
55 editions
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2013
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Glory
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2022
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Hitting Budapest
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2010
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1914-Goodbye to All That: Writers on the Conflict Between Life and Art
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2014
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Twenty Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing
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2019
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Africana: Raccontare il Continente al di là degli stereotipi
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Ana Huang 8 Books Set
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Snapshots - Nouvelles voix du Caine Prize
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2014
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His middle name was not Jesus
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Country Country
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“The problem with English is this: You usually can't open your mouth and it comes out just like that--first you have to think what you want to say. Then you have to find the words. Then you have to carefully arrange those words in your head. Then you have to say the words quietly to yourself, to make sure you got them okay. And finally, the last step, which is to say the words out loud and have them sound just right.
But then because you have to do all this, when you get to the final step, something strange has happened to you and you speak the way a drunk walks. And, because you are speaking like falling, it's as if you are an idiot, when the truth is that it's the language and the whole process that's messed up. And then the problem with those who speak only English is this: they don't know how to listen; they are busy looking at your falling instead of paying attention to what you are saying.”
― We Need New Names
But then because you have to do all this, when you get to the final step, something strange has happened to you and you speak the way a drunk walks. And, because you are speaking like falling, it's as if you are an idiot, when the truth is that it's the language and the whole process that's messed up. And then the problem with those who speak only English is this: they don't know how to listen; they are busy looking at your falling instead of paying attention to what you are saying.”
― We Need New Names
“Look at the children of the land leaving in droves, leaving their own land with bleeding wounds on their bodies and shock on their faces and blood in their hearts and hunger in their stomachs and grief in their footsteps. Leaving their mothers and fathers and children behind, leaving their umbilical cords underneath the soil, leaving the bones of their ancestors in the earth, leaving everything that makes them who and what they are, leaving because it is no longer possible to stay. They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same.”
― We Need New Names
― We Need New Names
“Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.”
― We Need New Names
― We Need New Names
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