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Petina Gappah
Zimbabwean writer, journalist and business lawyer (born 1971)
Petina Gappah (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer.
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She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language.[2] In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper.[3] In 2017 she had a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship[4] in Berlin.
Biography
Early years
Petina Gappah was born in Zambia, in Copperbelt Province. She has said: "My father, like many skilled black workers who could not get jobs in segregated Rhodesia, sought his fortune elsewhere.
He and my mother moved to Kitwe, a town on the booming Zambian copper belt."[5] She was brought up in Zimbabwe, where her parents returned when she was nine months old. After the country's Independence her family moved to a formerly white area in what is now Harare, and she was one of the first black pupils in a primary school formerly reserved for white childr