On the way, they discuss the pregnancy of ten-year-old Chipo, who was raped by her grandfather. The House of Hunger is available as a Penguin Classic. Hitting Budapest by NoViolet Bulawayo starts with Six African children Bastard, Chipo, Godknows, Sbho, Stina and Darling, the narrator who are on their way to Budapest, a rich neighbourhood, to steal guavas because they are hungry. It tours to Derby, Manchester, Newcastle, Peterborough, and Bristol We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo, in a new adaptation by Mufaro Makubika is a Fifth Word and New Perspectives co-production directed by Monique Touko. Jocelyn Alexander is involved in creating an archive and oral history documenting Southern Africa's liberation armies and has researched experiences of political imprisonment over 50 years in Zimbabwe. Mufaro Makubika has adapted the coming of age story published by NoViolet Bulawayo in 2013 as a play, which is now touring England. Tinashe Mushakavanhu is researching his story and writings. Aired on Tuesday 16th May 2023, BBC Radio 3Ī 70s London squat was home to the writer Dambudzo Marechera when he was writing his first novel The House of Hunger (1978), which was published in the Heinemann African Writers series and has now been issued as a Penguin Classic. We are delighted that Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo is longlisted for the BookerPrize2022, a dazzling story of tyranny and uprising, told by a vivid chorus of animal voices that helps us see our human world more clearly.
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