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Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu is the author of the City of Kings Trilogy, which includes her debut novel, The Theory of Flight, which won the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize in South Africa; The History of Man; and The Quality of Mercy. In 2022, she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize. In 2023, her story “The Postman,” in The Yale Review, was a finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors Award. She wrote, directed, and edited the award-winning short film Graffiti. She is also an academic who holds a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, as well as master’s degrees in African Studies and Film. She has published research on Saartjie Baartman. Born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, she worked as a teacher in Johannesburg before returning to Bulawayo.

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August 2, 2023

Following The Theory of Flight and The History of Man, the Windham Campbell Prize winner concludes her City of Kings trilogy: “Her unsolved murder made what he needed to do now very difficult.”

August 2, 2023

Following The Theory of Flight and The History of Man, the Windham Campbell Prize winner concludes her City of Kings trilogy: “Her unsolved murder made what he needed to do now very difficult.”

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