Henrietta Rose-Innes
{{Short description|South African novelist and short-story writer }}
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University of the Witwatersrand{{Cite web |date=2020-03-26 |title=Henrietta Rose-Innes |url=https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/person/henrietta-rose-innes/ |access-date=2022-07-11 |website=Akademie Schloss Solitude |language=en-US}}
University of East Anglia
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Henrietta Rose-Innes (born 14 September 1971) is a South African novelist and short-story writer. She was the 2008 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing{{cite news|first=Lindesay |last=Irvine|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jul/08/awardsandprizes.caineprize |title=Henrietta Rose-Innes wins £10,000 Caine prize|newspaper=The Guardian|date=8 July 2008}} for her speculative-fiction story "Poison".[http://www.economist.com/node/11703095 "Prize-winning fiction: Apocalypse now – Readers reward horrible histories"], The Economist, 10 July 2008. Her novel Nineveh was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Prize for Fiction and the M-Net Literary Awards. In September of that year her story "Sanctuary" was awarded second place in the 2012 BBC (Inter)national Short Story Award.
Background
Rose-Innes was "born and bred" in Cape Town, South Africa.{{cite web|url=https://bookblast.com/blog/interview-henrietta-rose-innes-author/|title=Interview Henrietta Rose-Innes, author|first=Georgia|last=de Chamberet|website=BookBlast|date=12 October 2017|access-date=14 January 2024}}
She has been a Fellow in Literature at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2007–08) and has held residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center; Chateau de Lavigny, Lausanne; the kunst:raum sylt quelle, Sylt; Georgetown University; the University of Cape Town's Centre for Creative Writing; Caldera Arts Center, Oregon; and Hawthornden Castle Writer's Retreat, Scotland. She is a 2012 Gordon Fellow at the Gordon Institute for Creative and Performing Arts (GIPCA), University of Cape Town.[http://www.gipca.uct.ac.za/fellowships/ Fellowships], GIPCA. She has a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.{{Cite thesis |title=Edgeland encounters in the South African city : stone plant: a novel |url=https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/72630/ |publisher=University of East Anglia |date=2018-08-01 |degree=doctoral |language=en |first=Henrietta |last=Rose-Innes}}
Works
;Novels
- Shark's Egg (2000)
- The Rock Alphabet (2004)
- Nineveh (2011)
- Green Lion (2015)
The Rock Alphabet has been published in Romanian (2007). Dream Homes: Schnappschüsse und Geschichten aus Kapstadt, collected essays and short stories, was published in German in 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/publikationen/literatur/dream-homes-schnappschuesse-und-kurzgeschichten-aus-kapstadt~no3070/ |title=Akademie Schloss Solitude |website=www.akademie-solitude.de |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227205033/http://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/publikationen/literatur/dream-homes-schnappschuesse-und-kurzgeschichten-aus-kapstadt~no3070/ |archive-date=2014-02-27}} Nineveh has been translated into French{{Cite web|url=http://www.editionszoe.ch/livre/ninive|title = Editions ZOE / Ninive / Henrietta Rose-Innes}} and Spanish{{cite web|url=https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/unnamed-press-launch-henrietta-rose-innes-us|title=Unnamed Press to launch Henrietta Rose-Innes in the US this year|website=Blake Friedmann|date=14 March 2016|access-date=14 January 2024}} (both 2015), and Green Lion has appeared in French as L'Homme au Lion (2016).{{Cite web|url=http://www.editionszoe.ch/livre/l-homme-au-lion|title = Editions ZOE / l'Homme au lion / Henrietta Rose-Innes}}
;Short stories
- Homing (2010) (collection)
Other short pieces have appeared in a variety of international publications, including The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2011), The Granta Book of the African Short Story (2011) and Granta online.
;Compilations
- Nice Times! A Book of South African Pleasures and Delights (compiled and edited by Rose-Innes, 2006).
Awards
- Winner of the South African English Olympiad
- Shortlisted, 2001 M-Net Literary Award for Shark's Egg
- Shortlisted, 2007 Caine Prize
- Winner of the 2007 Southern African PEN short-story award Ben – Editor, [http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2007/04/26/henrietta-rose-innes-wins-5000-sa-pen-award/ "Henrietta Rose-Innes Wins $5,000 SA PEN Award"], Books Live, 26 April 2007.
- Winner of the 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing for "Poison"{{Cite web |title=Rose-Innes on the winning trail with Poison |url=http://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2008-07-22-rose-innes-on-the-winning-trail-with-poison |date=22 July 2008 |first= Helen|last= Théron|access-date=2022-07-11 |website=www.news.uct.ac.za |language=en}}
- Nineveh was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Prize for Fiction and the M-Net Literary Awards.
- Short story "Sanctuary" awarded second place in the 2012 BBC (Inter)national Short Story Award.[http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/henrietta-rose-innes Henrietta Rose-Innes page] at Blake Friedmann.
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.henriettaroseinnes.com/}}
- {{cite web|url=https://shortstorydayafrica.org/news/bp47zcbtmedh58as6q976wx97ihe9j|title=An Interview With Henrietta Rose-Innes On The Relationship Between Humans And Non-Humans, Writing And Home|website=Short Story Day Africa|first=Rachel|last=Zadok|date=27 May 2015|access-date=14 January 2024}}
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Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia
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