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Hawa Jande Golakai

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Hawa Jande Golakai (born 1979) is a Liberian writer and clinical scientist.

Career

Hawa Jande Golakai is a Liberian author. Her debut novel The Lazarus Effect (Kwela Books) was shortlisted for the 2011 Sunday Times Fiction Prize and the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize, and was longlisted for the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.[1] Golakai was included in the Africa39 anthology of the most promising sub-Saharan writers under the age of 40. The Lazarus Effect was published in 2016 by Cassava Republic Press in the UK.[2] Her second novel, The Score (Kwela Books) will be released in the UK in 2017. Golakai won critical acclaim for her essay "Fugee",[3] a personal account of the Ebola crisis in Liberia, commissioned for an anthology of Creative Nonfiction in partnership with Commonwealth Writers and published in May 2016.[4] Golakai was a mentor for the 2015 Writivism programme,[5] a judge for the Etisalat Flash Fiction Prize 2015[6] and is a judge for the 2016 Short Story Day Africa prize.[7]

Published Works

  • The Lazarus Effect (Kwela Books, South Africa, 2011; Cassava Republic Press, UK & Nigeria, 2016) ISBN 978-1911115083
  • "Fugee" in Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction (Cassava Republic Press, 2016) ISBN 978-1911115168
  • "Candy Girl" in Valentine's Day Anthology 2015 (Ankara Press, 2015)
  • The Score (Kwela Books, South Africa, 2015)

References

  1. ^ "Hay Festival". www.hayfestival.com. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
  2. ^ "Cassava Republic Press — The Lazarus Effect". www.cassavarepublic.biz. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
  3. ^ ""I am Liberian, Not a virus" | Hawa Jande Golakai's Granta Essay is a Dazzling Read". Brittle Paper. 2016-05-02. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
  4. ^ "Cassava Republic Press — Safe House". www.cassavarepublic.biz. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
  5. ^ "2015 Writivism Mentors". Writivism. 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2016-06-09.
  6. ^ "Daily Trust". Daily Trust. Trust Media Ltd. 2015-09-20. Retrieved 2016-06-09.
  7. ^ "The SSDA Prize". Short Story Day Africa. Retrieved 2016-06-09.
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