Henrietta Rose-Innes

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^[1] for her speculative-fiction story "Poison".^[2] Her novel Nineveh was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Prize for Fiction and the M-Net Literary Awards. 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, Stuttgarteco (2007–08) and has held residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation'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, 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.^[3] She is currently studying towards a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Works

Novels

• Nineveh (2011)
• The Rock Alphabet (2004)
• Shark's Egg (2000)

Short stories

• Homing (2010) (collection)

Other short pieces have appeared in a variety of international publications, including:

• "Homing" in The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2011)
• "Promenade" in The Granta Book of the African Short Story (2011)
• "Homing" in AGNI 72, Portfolio of African Fiction (2010)
• "Falling" in Willesden Herald New Short Stories 4 (2010)

Essays

Creative non-fiction by Rose-Innes includes:

• "Semiprecious" in Homecoming, Granta Online (2010)
• "Chan Chan at Break of Day" in Home Away (2009)
• "Five sites" in A City Imagined (2006)

Translations

• Alfabetul Pietrelor, Tritonic Books/ Alfabetul Pietrelor (translation of The Rock Alphabet, Romanian, 2007).
• Dream Homes: Schnappschüsse und Geschichten aus Kapstadt (collected essays and short stories, German, 2008).
• "Promenade" in Naar de Stad: De mooiste korte verhalen van de 21ste eeuw, ed. A. Verbeke & S. van Hassel (Dutch, 2012)
• "Poison" in the Albawtaka Review (Arabic, 2010)
• "Haifischei" in Litprom Nr. 94 (Shark's Egg extract, German, 2007).

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.^[4]
• Nineveh was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Prize for Fiction and the M-Net Literary Awards.
• Runner-up, Willesden Herald short story competition, 2010 ^[5] for 'Falling'
• Winner of the 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing^[1] for "Poison"^[2]
• Winner of the 2007 Southern African PEN short-story award ^[6]
• Shortlisted, 2007 Caine Prize
• Shortlisted, 2001 M-Net Literary Award for Shark's Egg

See also

• List of South Africans
• List of South African writers

References

1. Lindesay Irvine, "Henrietta Rose-Innes wins £10,000 Caine prize", The Guardian, 8 July 2008.
2. "Prize-winning fiction: Apocalypse now – Readers reward horrible histories", The Economist, 10 July 2008.
3. Fellowships, GIPCA.
4. Henrietta Rose-Innes page at Blake Friedmann.
5. "Announcement: Willesden 2010 shortlist", The Willesden Herald, 26 January 2010.
6. Ben – Editor, "Henrietta Rose-Innes Wins $5,000 SA PEN Award", Books Live, 26 April 2007.

External links

• Official website