The late Yvonne Vera, author of outstanding literary works including The Stone Virgins has just been awarded the 2006 Aidoo/Snyder Prize – an initiative of the US African Studies Association to recognise the outstanding contributions of Ama Ata Aidoo and Margaret Snyder to the study of African women, and to showcase work that prioritises the experiences of African women. In addition, The Stone Virgins has won the first African Studies Award for literature by women in Africa.
On
20th November 2004, Vera won the Tucholsky Prize, awarded by Swedish Pen.
The prize was received on her behalf in Stockholm by Professor Terence
Ranger.
Vera died on 7 April 2005.
(right) Yvonne Vera at the launch of The Stone Virgins
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Yvonne Vera wins 2002 German
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Sign
and Taboo: Perspectives on the Poetic Fiction of Yvonne Vera
edited by Robert Muponde and Mandivavarira Taruvinga
2002: 215 x 135; 252pp
ISBN 1 77922 004 9
Territory: Europe and
Africa excluding South Africa and Zimbabwe
The
Stone Virgins
Yvonne
Vera
Interview
with the author
2002:
208 x 136
ISBN 1 77922 002 2
Territory: Southern Africa
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