Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Ellah Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL (amụrụ na 16 Septemba 1966),  bụ onye nchịkọta akụkọ na Canongate Books,  onye isi nchọpụta na Mahadum Manchester, na Onye isi oche nke AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.   Ọ bụ onye guzobere Publishing Director nke Indigo Press .  Onye nchịkọta akụkọ na onye nkatọ nke London, ọ nọ na kọmitii ikpe nke 2017 International Dublin Literary Award na 2015 Man Booker Prize. N'afọ 2016, ọ bụ Prọfesọ nleta na Global Intercultural Scholar na Goshen College, Indiana, ọ bụkwa Guest Master maka 2016 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Foundation international journalism fellowship na Cartagena, Colombia. Onye bụbu osote onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke magazin Granta,   ọ bụ onye isi nchịkọta akụkọ na Jonathan Cape, Random House na onye enyemaka onye nchịkọta akụkọ na Penguin. Ọ bụ onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke <i id="mwNg">Kwani?</i>  Manuscript Project na onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke anthologies Africa39  (Bloomsbury, 2014) na Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction (Dundurn/Cassava Republic).

Ọrụ nta akụkọ ya apụtala na Telegraph, Guardian na akwụkwọ akụkọ Observer yana akwụkwọ akụkọ Spectator na Griffith Review. Ọ bụkwa onye nyere aka na mbipụta 2019 nke New Daughters of Africa.[1] Ọ bụkwa onye na-enye aka mgbe niile na ibe akwụkwọ NPR. Ọ na-anabata NPR's All Things-Trand and BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review. Ọ nọdụrụ na kọmitii nhọrọ maka Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship afọ asaa wee jee ozi dị ka onye ndụmọdụ ndụmọdụ maka Rolex 2014-15 Mentor & Protégée Initiative, yana ije ozi dị ka Onye isi oche nke Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship Selection panel ruo afọ atọ. Ọ na-anọdụ na bọọdụ ndị nduzi maka Art for Amnesty na Editorial Advisory Panel nke The Johannesburg Review of Books na Lagos Review of Books. N'afọ 2011, a họpụtara ya onye ọchịagha nke Order of the British Empire (OBE) maka ọrụ akwụkwọ na akwụkwọ na 2019, wee mee ya onye otu Royal Society of Literature. [2]

 Akụkọ ndụ 
A amụrụ ya na Salisbury, Rhodesia, na 16 Septemba 1966 nye onye Zimbabwean na-ede akwụkwọ akụkọ, onye nta akụkọ na onye na-ebipụta akwụkwọ Pius Wakatama  na onye ọchụnta ego na onye na'ahụ maka ikike ụmụ nwanyị bụ Winnie Wakatama (née Ndoro), Ellah Wakatama nọrọ afọ ntolite ya n'etiti Salisbury na etiti ọdịda anyanwụ USA mgbe nna ya gụrụ akwụkwọ na Mahadum Iowa.   Ọ laghachiri Rhodesia mgbe ọ dị afọ iri, na-aga Arundel School. Ọ laghachiri America site na agụmakwụkwọ kọleji ya, nke malitere na Goshen College, ebe ọ nwetara BA na Journalism, na-agwụ na Mahadum Rutgers, ebe ọ natara MA site na School of Communication, Information and Library Studies.   [citation needed]

Ọ bi ugbu a na London, UK, na-arụ ọrụ dị ka onye nchịkọta akụkọ na Canongate Books, Research Fellow na Mahadum Manchester, na Onye isi oche nke Caine Prize for African Writing.

Ọ bụ nwanne onye ode akwụkwọ na onye mgbasa ozi gbasara ọmụmụ ọmụmụ Machu Farai Wakayama Hargrove na Nhamu wakatama nwụrụ anwụ na Richard Wakatam. 

 Onyinye 
Onye otu Royal Society of the Arts,  Allfrey nwetara OBE na 2011 New Year Honours maka ọrụ maka ụlọ ọrụ mbipụta. 

N'afọ 2019, a họpụtara ya ka ọ bụrụ onye nsọpụrụ nke Royal Society of Literature . 

Aha ya bụ Brittle paper onye edemede Africa nke afọ 2019" ihe nrite na-amata ndị na-arụ ọrụ N'azụ ihe nkiri iji jide ụlọ akwụkwọ edemede Africa .

 Isiokwu na edemede ndị a họọrọ 

 Nnyocha nke Call It Dog nke Marli Roode (The Guardian, 28 August 2013) 
 "Onye ukwu Chinua Achebe bụ nwoke nyere Afrịka olu" (The Observer, 24 Machị 2013) 
 "All Hail the African Renaissance" (The Telegraph, 9 Septemba 2011) 
 "Agha ọdịbendị nyere anyị akwụkwọ na egwu nke ọgụgụ isi" (The Observer, 13 Eprel 2013) 
 "Ndị edemede chọrọ ụzọ ọhụrụ iji kwuo maka oge gara aga na ugbu a nke Afrịka" (The Guardian, 4 June 2016) 
 "Longchase" (Ụmụ nwanyị ọhụrụ nke Africa, 2019) 

 Podcasts/video 

 Guardian Books podcast: Akụkọ ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị, 5 Eprel 2013
 Ellah Wakatama Allfrey na Behind the Headlines, 3 Jenụwarị 2011. 
 Ellah Allfrey na Audible na-ekwurịta okwu banyere mbipụta nke anọ nke Granta's "Best of Young British Novelists". 

 Echiche 

 "Akwụkwọ 10 kachasị mma n'Africa n'oge a". The Observer, 26 August 2012.
 Nke Parselo Kantai, Nairobi hotara, na "Publishing: Book ends and new beginnings", The Africa Report, 8 February 2012.
 "Ọ dịghị Violet: Site na Booker nke Africa gaa na Booker longlist"  (nkwupụta) 

 Ajụjụ ọnụ 

 "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE on Behind the Headlines", SW Radio Africa, 3 Jenụwarị 2011.
 "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Granta na Nairobi, Kenya".
 Nyana Kakoma, "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey banyere otu o si bụrụ onye nchịkọta akụkọ na ihe mere e ji bụrụ onye ọkachamara", African Writers Trust, 30 June 2014.
 "...Ndị na-ebipụta akwụkwọ n'onwe ha na ndị Gate-Keepers chọrọ m ihe okike. " Ajụjụ ọnụ na Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Short Story Day Africa, 30 Nọvemba 2016.

 Mmekọrịta 

 African Writers Trust Literary Feast, Uganda, May 2012.
 Izu edemede Nairobi, onye ọka ikpe. 
 Onye ọka ikpe maka Kwani? Manuscript Project  - ihe nrite maka akụkọ ifo a na-ebipụtaghị site n'aka ndị edemede Africa.
 "The Trans-Atlantic, the Diaspora, and Africa" sonyere.  - nzukọ nke Oxford University Research Centre for the Humanities kwadoro, iji kwurịta banyere agụmakwụkwọ kachasị ọhụrụ na-apụta site na Mpaghara interdisciplinary nke US-derived Diaspora Studies na British-derived Trans-Atlantic Studies, yana otu mpaghara ndị a si kewaa ma gbakọta na njikọ nke echiche nke Africa.
 Onye isi nke Etisalat Prize for Literature  - ihe nrite pan-African na-eme emume ndị edemede Africa nke mbụ nke akwụkwọ akụkọ ifo e bipụtara.
 Judge for 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize  - ihe nrite maka akụkọ kachasị mma nke akụkọ ifo dị mkpirikpi a na-ebipụtaghị (2000-5000 okwu) na Bekee.
 Magazin Wasafiri (onye nyere aka), Mpịakọta 22, Mbipụta 3, 2007.
 Onye na-agba ajụjụ ọnụ - Binyavanga Waina's Book Launch 
 Peter Godwin, Egwu: Ụbọchị Ikpeazụ nke Robert Mugabe  (nkwenye).
 Onye ọka ikpe maka 2010 Caine Prize for African Writing. 
 Nkwupụta maka Kojo Laing, Nwanyị nke Ụgbọelu. 
 Ọkàikpe 2011 maka David Cohen Prize for Literature.
 Onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara (2014), na okwu mbido nke Wole SoyinkaAjị Soyinka
 Onye ọka ikpe 2015 maka Man Booker PrizeIhe nrite Man Booker
 Onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction (Cassava Republic Press, 2016) 
 Ajụjụ ọnụ na Margaret Busby, Wasafiri, November 2017.

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