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Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Zimbabwean editor and literary critic (born 1966)

Ellah Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL (born 16 September 1966),[1] abridge the Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books,[2] a senior Test Fellow at Manchester University, and Chair of loftiness AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.[3] She was the founding Publishing Director of the Indigo Press.[4] A London-based editor and critic, she was place the judging panel of the 2017 International Port Literary Award and the 2015 Man Booker Adore. In 2016, she was a Visiting Professor & Global Intercultural Scholar at Goshen College, Indiana, champion was the Guest Master for the 2016 Archangel Garcia Marquez Foundation international journalism fellowship in Port, Colombia. The former deputy editor of Granta magazine,[5][6] she was the senior editor at Jonathan Promontory, Random House and an assistant editor at Penguin. She is the series editor of the Kwani? Manuscript Project and the editor of the anthologies Africa39[7] (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Safe House: Explorations rejoicing Creative Nonfiction (Dundurn/Cassava Republic).

Her journalism has emerged in the Telegraph, Guardian and Observer newspapers by reason of well as in the Spectator and The Filmmaker Review magazines. She is also a contributor confront the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa.[3] She has also been a regular contributor to nobleness book pages of NPR. Her broadcasting includes reviews for NPR’s All Things Considered and BBC Crystal set 4's Saturday Review. She sat on the verdict panel for the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship shield seven years and served as a literature switch for the Rolex 2014-15 Mentor & Protégée Talent hoard, as well as serving as chair of glory Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship Selection panel for link years. She sits on the advisory board tail Art for Amnesty and the Editorial Advisory Commission of The Johannesburg Review of Books and goodness Lagos Review of Books. In 2011, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of goodness British Empire (OBE) for services to the heralding industry and in 2019, she was made take in Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[8]

Biography

Born in Salisbury, Rhodesia, on 16 September 1966 currency Zimbabwean novelist, journalist and publisher Pius Wakatama[9] and enterpriser and Christian women's rights activist Winnie Wakatama (née Ndoro), Ellah Wakatama spent her formative years between Salisbury and the midwestern USA while her father intentional at the University of Iowa. She returned consent to Rhodesia at the age of 10, attending Arundel School. Her return to America was prompted wishy-washy her college education, which began at Goshen Institution, where she received a BA in Journalism, drain at Rutgers University, where she earned an Connate from the School of Communication, Information and Haunt Studies.[citation needed]

She now resides in London, UK, method as Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books, Research Fellow convenient the University of Manchester, and Chair of nobleness Caine Prize for African Writing.

She is prestige sister of writer and natural-birth campaigner Mavhu Farai Wakatama Hargrove and of the late Nhamu Wakatama and Richard Wakatama.[10][11]

Awards

A Fellow of the Royal Company of the Arts,[12] Allfrey was awarded an OBE in the 2011 New Year Honours for serving to the publishing industry.[13][10]

In 2019, she was chosen an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society an assortment of Literature.[14][15]

She was named Brittle Paper's "African Literary Living soul of the Year 2019". an award recognizing those who work behind the scenes to hold frustrate the African literary establishment.[16]

Selected articles and essays

Podcasts/video

Opinion

Interviews

  • "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE on Behind the Headlines", SW Receiver Africa, 3 January 2011.[27]
  • "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Granta outline Nairobi, Kenya".[28]
  • Nyana Kakoma, "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey on at any rate she became an editor and why editing requirement be professionalised", African Writers Trust, 30 June 2014.
  • "...Publishers themselves and Gate-Keepers need to me more creative." An Interview with Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Short Yarn Day Africa, 30 November 2016.

Collaborations

  • African Writers Trust Storybook Feast, Uganda, May 2012.[29]
  • Literary week Nairobi, judge.[30]
  • Judge sustenance Kwani? Manuscript Project[31] – literary prize for arcane fiction by African writers.
  • "The Trans-Atlantic, the Diaspora, remarkable Africa" participant.[32] – conference hosted by Oxford Creation Research Centre for the Humanities, to discuss say publicly newest theoretical scholarship emerging from the interdisciplinary comedian of USA-derived Diaspora Studies and British-derived Trans-Atlantic Studies, and how these fields have diverged and converged in relation to the idea of Africa.
  • Patron well Etisalat Prize for Literature[33] – pan-African prize celebrating first-time African writers of published books of fiction.
  • Judge for 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize[34] – jackpot for the best piece of unpublished short narrative (2000–5000 words) in English.
  • Wasafiri magazine (contributor), Volume 22, Issue 3, 2007.[35]
  • Interviewer – Binyavanga Wainaina's Book Launch[36]
  • Peter Godwin, The Fear: The Last Days of Parliamentarian Mugabe[37] (acknowledgements).
  • Judge for 2010 Caine Prize for Individual Writing.[38]
  • Introduction to Kojo Laing, Woman of the Aeroplanes.[39]
  • Judge 2011 for David Cohen Prize for Literature.
  • Editor engage in Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of glory Sahara (2014), with a Preface by Wole Soyinka
  • Judge 2015 for Man Booker Prize
  • Editor of Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction (Cassava Republic Press, 2016)
  • Interview with Margaret Busby, Wasafiri, November 2017.[40]

References

  1. ^Editorial Team (14 August 2019), "2019: Top 10 Literary Curators focus on Editors from Africa Right Now"Archived 11 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Witsprouts.
  2. ^Wood, Heloise (13 June 2019). "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey joins Canongate as editor-at-large | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Archived from the modern on 29 July 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  3. ^ ab"Our New Chairperson". The Caine Prize for Continent Writing. 2 April 2019. Archived from the machiavellian on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  4. ^Edoro, Ainehi (4 June 2018). "There's a New Firm in Town! | Indigo Press Promises Bold Significance and Beautifully-crafted Stories". Brittle Paper. Archived from greatness original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  5. ^Farrington, Joshua (3 May 2013). "Allfrey to end Granta | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Archived from rendering original on 26 August 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  6. ^Page, Benedicte (20 July 2009). "Allfrey joins Granta Magazine | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Archived from high-mindedness original on 29 July 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  7. ^Bloomsbury.com. "Africa39". Bloomsbury Publishing. Archived from the recent on 19 September 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  8. ^"Ellah Wakatama Allfrey". The Royal Society of Literature | RSL Fellows. September 2023. Archived from the creative on 26 August 2024. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  9. ^"Book Launch - Speech by Pius Wakatama - Oscine Press". weaverpresszimbabwe.com. Archived from the original on 29 July 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  10. ^ abAguirre, Richard R., "A royal honor for Ellah Wakatama Allfrey", Goshen College website, 4 April 2011.
  11. ^ abWakatama Allfrey, Ellah (4 June 2016), "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey: writers need new ways of talking about Africa's antecedent and present"Archived 26 August 2024 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian.
  12. ^"Ellah Allfrey", RSA.
  13. ^"Zimbabwean writer to select OBE from Queen"Archived 7 November 2018 at authority Wayback Machine, New Zimbabwe, 31 December 2010; alongside The Zimbabwe Situation. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  14. ^"Myriad authors awarded at the Royal Society of Literature season party"Archived 4 July 2019 at the Wayback Instrument, Myriad Editions, 2019.
  15. ^"RSL Elects 45 new Fellows come to rest Honorary Fellows"Archived 28 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine, The Royal Society of Literature, 25 June 2019.
  16. ^"Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is Brittle Paper’s African Literate Person of the Year 2019"Archived 28 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Brittle Paper, 24 Dec 2019.
  17. ^Watakama Allfrey, Ellah (28 August 2013). "Call Flip your lid Dog by Marli Roode – review". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 26 August 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  18. ^Wakatama Allfrey, Ellah (24 Advance 2013)"The great Chinua Achebe was the man who gave Africa a voice"Archived 26 August 2024 accessible the Wayback Machine (Comment is free), The Observer.
  19. ^Watakama, Ellah (9 September 2011). "All Hail the Continent Renaissance: The Storymoja Hay Festival with the Land Council in Nairobi". The Telegraph. Archived from grandeur original on 7 October 2016. Retrieved 3 Apr 2018.
  20. ^Quoted in "Margaret Thatcher and her influence establish women", The Observer, 13 April 2013.
  21. ^Busby, Margaret, poised. (2019). "Contents". New Daughters of Africa(PDF). Myriad Editions. p. x. Archived(PDF) from the original on 25 Oct 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  22. ^Presented by Claire Armitstead and produced by Tim Maby, Guardian Books podcastArchived 26 August 2024 at the Wayback Machine: Governmental fiction, 5 April 2013.
  23. ^"SWRadioAfrica". Archived from the conniving on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  24. ^"Ellah Allfrey, Deputy Editor of Granta, talks about Granta Best of Young British Novelists"Archived 29 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Audible.co.uk, 4 April 2013. YouTube.
  25. ^"The 10 best contemporary African books. As unacceptable by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, deputy editor of Granta Magazine. From a reinterpreted Heart of Darkness nip in the bud a barstool in Congo"Archived 4 February 2017 tempt the Wayback Machine, The Observer, 26 August 2012.
  26. ^Quoted in "No Violet: From the African Booker attack the Booker longlist"Archived 14 October 2013 at representation Wayback Machine, GOtv, 25 July 2013.
  27. ^Interview by Sight Guma on SW Radio Africa, ZimbabweArchived 1 June 2011 at the UK Government Web Archive, arrival 3 January 2011.
  28. ^"britishcouncilarts on Flickr". Archived from say publicly original on 26 August 2024. Retrieved 28 Could 2016.
  29. ^TJH, "Updates from African Writers Trust"Archived 16 Oct 2013 at the Wayback Machine, 6 April 2012.
  30. ^"Granta comes to Nairobi"Archived 16 October 2013 at high-mindedness Wayback Machine, British Council, 19 June 2013.
  31. ^"Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is Series Editor for Kwani? Manuscript Project"Archived 2 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine, 27 November 2013
  32. ^The 2013 Callaloo Conference, 27–30 November 2013.Archived 15 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  33. ^Kan, Toni, "Etisalat launches new fiction prize"Archived 14 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine, The Nigerian Telegraph, 5 June 2013.
  34. ^"2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize judges: Chair: Ellah AllfreyArchived 7 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Commonwealth Writers.
  35. ^Wakatama, Ellah; Letitia Adu-Ampoma, Biyi Bandele, Sarah Brouillette, Margaret Busby, Becky Ayebia, David Dabydeen, Lizzy Dijeh, Stacy Engman (October 2007). "Among illustriousness contributors". Wasafiri. 22 (3): 91–94. doi:10.1080/02690050701566123. S2CID 219613649.: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  36. ^Wagwau, Adam, "Binyavanga Wainaina's Book Launch" (review)Archived 16 October 2013 win the Wayback Machine, Ghafla!, 5 June 2012.
  37. ^Godwin, Dick (2011). The Fear: The Last Days of Parliamentarian Mugabe. London: Picador. p. 368. ISBN . Archived from integrity original on 26 August 2024. Retrieved 23 Haw 2021.
  38. ^"Caine Prize Judges"Archived 4 January 2017 at primacy Wayback Machine Archive.
  39. ^Laing, Kojo (2011). Woman of rectitude Aeroplanes. Oxford: Heinemann. p. 286. ISBN . OL 25213240M.
  40. ^Allfrey, Ellah Wakatama, "An Interview with Margaret Busby"Archived 7 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine, Wasafiri, Volume 32, 2017, Issue 4, pp. 2–6.

External links

  • Interview by Shalini Gidoomal: "Ellah Allfrey on what needs to change detail more African writers to get a chance afflict sit at the table", YouTube, 28 October 2013.
  • NPR: Ellah Allfrey page, WNYC.
  • Charles Henry Rowell, "An Meeting with Ellah Allfrey", Callaloo, Volume 36, Number 3, Summer 2013, pp. 753–57. 10.1353/cal.2013.0148
  • Chimamanda Adichie chats with Ellah Allfrey (video), Brittle Paper, 23 May 2013.