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Namwali Serpell

Namwali Serpell

Biography and Books

Biography

Full Name: Namwali Serpell

Namwali Serpell was born in Zambia and now lives in New York. She is a professor of English at Harvard. Her debut novel, The Old Drift, won the Anisfield-Wolf Prize for Fiction, an award honouring works that confront racism and explore diversity; the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction; and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, among others. She won a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2020.

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The Furrows
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'The Furrows confirms Serpell's place as one of the most innovative and intelligent writers today' Financial Times' Cassandra is twelve; her little brother, Wayne, is seven. One day, when they're alone together, there is an accident and Wayne is lost foreve...
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The Old Drift
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On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In 1904, in a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes ...
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