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
[Lindesay Irvine]
"Henrietta Rose-Innes wins £10,000 Caine prize"
''The Guardian'', 8 July 2008. for her speculative-fiction story "Poison".
["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
The ''Sunday Times'' CNA Literary Awards are awarded annually to South African writers by the South African weekly newspaper the '' Sunday Times''. They comprise the ''Sunday Times'' CNA Literary Award for Non-fiction and the ''Sunday Times'' ...
and the
M-Net Literary Awards
M-Net Literary Awards were a group of South African literary awards, awarded from 1991 to 2013. They were established and sponsored by M-Net (Electronic Media Network), a South African television station. The award was suspended indefinitely a ...
. In September of that year her story "Sanctuary" was awarded second place in the
2012 BBC (Inter)national Short Story Award.
Rose-Innes has been a Fellow in Literature at the
Akademie Schloss Solitude,
Stuttgart
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(2007–08) and has held residencies at the
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America, after the Carneg ...
'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
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,
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. She is a PhD in Creative Writing at the
University of East Anglia.
Works
;Novels
*''Green Lion'' (2015)
*''Nineveh'' (2011)
*''The Rock Alphabet'' (2004)
*''Shark's Egg'' (2000)
Nineveh has been translated into French and Spanish (both 2015), and ''Green Lion'' has appeared in French as ''L'Homme au Lion'' (2016). ''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.
;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
* Short story 'Sanctuary' awarded second place in the
2012 BBC (Inter)national Short Story Award.
* ''Nineveh'' shortlisted for the 2012
Sunday Times Prize for Fiction
The ''Sunday Times'' CNA Literary Awards are awarded annually to South African writers by the South African weekly newspaper the '' Sunday Times''. They comprise the ''Sunday Times'' CNA Literary Award for Non-fiction and the ''Sunday Times'' ...
and the
M-Net Literary Awards
M-Net Literary Awards were a group of South African literary awards, awarded from 1991 to 2013. They were established and sponsored by M-Net (Electronic Media Network), a South African television station. The award was suspended indefinitely a ...
.
* Winner of the 2008
Caine Prize for African Writing
for "Poison"
* Winner of the 2007 Southern African
PEN short-story award
[Ben – Editor]
"Henrietta Rose-Innes Wins $5,000 SA PEN Award"
''Books Live'', 26 April 2007.
* Shortlisted, 2007 Caine Prize
* Shortlisted, 2001
M-Net Literary Award for ''Shark's Egg''
See also
*
List of South Africans
This is a list of notable and famous South Africans who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles.
Academics
Academics
*Estian Calitz, academic (born 1949)
* Jakes Gerwel, academic and anti-apartheid activist (1946–2012)
*Miriam Green, acad ...
*
List of South African writers
This is a list of writers from South Africa.
A
*Lionel Abrahams (1928–2004)
*Peter Abrahams (1919–2017)
* Rehane Abrahams (born 1970)
* Wilna Adriaanse (born 1958)
* Tatamkulu Afrika (1920–2002), born in Egypt
*Lawrence Anthony (1950– ...
References
External links
*
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1971 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
University of Cape Town alumni
University of the Witwatersrand alumni
Caine Prize winners
South African science fiction writers
South African fantasy writers
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
South African women novelists
South African women short story writers
South African short story writers