NoViolet reveals title of new book

. Bruce Ndlovu
THREE years after the release of her critically acclaimed book, We Need New Names, Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo has announced that her highly anticipated new book will be titled Glory.

The latest Zimbabwean star in the world of literature has been mum on her follow-up project, but revealed the tentative title of the new book that she will be working on as the inaugural James Manyika fellow at Americaa��s prestigious Harvard University.

The author will take up residence in the American Spring 2017 where she will begin her work on the new book.

All eyes are on the young Zimbabwean author, after her smash debut on the literary scene which saw her emerge as one of the leading new voices in world and African literature.

We Need New Names has been recognised by the LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Pen/Hemingway Award, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award (second place), and the National Book Foundation a�?5 Under 35a�? Fiction Selection.

We Need New Names was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and selected to the New York Times Notable Books of 2013 list, the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers list, and others.

NoVioleta��s story a�?Hitting Budapesta�? won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing.

Earlier this year she was awarded with a fellowship at the prestigious Princeton University in the United States, but it seems that the bulk of the work on her new book will be done at Harvard.