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Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is the author of the novel House of Stone, the winner of the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award and the 2019 Bulawayo Arts Award for Outstanding Fiction. Her work has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Balcones Fiction Prize. A native of Zimbabwe, she has lived in South Africa and the United States and has taught fiction workshops globally.

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is the author of the novel House of Stone, the winner of the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award and the 2019 Bulawayo Arts Award for Outstanding Fiction. Her work has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Balcones Fiction Prize. A native of Zimbabwe, she has lived in South Africa and the United States and has taught fiction workshops globally.

Awards

Shortlisted — Dylan Thomas Prize, 2019

Longlisted — Orwell Prize, 2019

Books by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

  • House of Stone: A Novel

    Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

    Hardback, 2019

    Pulsing with wit, seduction, and dark humor, House of Stone is a masterful debut that explores the creative—and often destructive—act of history-making.
  • House of Stone: A Novel

    Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

    Paperback, 2020

    “A towering and multilayered gem.” —NoViolet Bulawayo
  • House of Stone: A Novel

    Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

    E Book, 2019

    “A towering and multilayered gem.” —NoViolet Bulawayo
  • Digging Stars: A Novel

    Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

    E Book

    A National Book Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2024 Science + Literature Selection

    Blending drama and satire while examining the complexities of colonialism, racism, and what it means...
  • Digging Stars: A Novel

    Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

    Paperback, 2024

    Blending drama and satire while examining the complexities of colonialism, racism and what it means to be American, Digging Stars probes the emotional universes of love, friendship, family and...
  • Digging Stars: A Novel

    Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

    Hardback, 2024

    A National Book Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2024 Science + Literature Selection

    Blending drama and satire while examining the complexities of colonialism, racism, and what it means...