Namwali Serpell
Namwali Serpell

Namwali Serpell was born in Lusaka, Zambia, and lives in New York. She received a 2020 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing, and a 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Her debut novel, The Old Drift, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction, and the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; it was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review and one of Time magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of the Year. Her nonfiction book, Stranger Faces, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. She is currently a professor of English at Harvard.

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The Furrows
Author: Namwali Serpell | Narrator: Dion Graham, Ryan Vincent Anderson and Kristen Ariza
Release Date: September 27, 2022
How do you grieve an absence? From the award-winning author of The Old Drift, a brilliantly inventive novel that “captures the disorienting nature of grief [and] its brain-scrambling, time-altering power” (The Washington Post).“A ge...
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The Old Drift
Author: Namwali Serpell | Narrator: Adjoa Andoh, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Richard E. Grant
Release Date: April 02, 2019
“A dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.”—Salman Rushdie, The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Dwight Garner, The New York Times • The N...
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