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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Petina Gappah

If you haven't heard of her yet, you will.

And not just because she's a Shailja Fan :-).

Drumroll, please, for my fabulously talented Zimbabwean sister-wordsmith. Who has just clinched

A Stellar Groundbreaking Book Deal
.

For (wait for it):

1) TWO books

2) On TWO continents

3) In no less than FOUR languages.

No further comment.

1 Comments:

Anonymous PG said...

You are such a star, thanks so much for this ... and you know you are in teh book, right?

Pg

8/26/2008 9:06 AM  

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