Petina Gappah

| birth_place = Copperbelt Province, Zambia | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Legal counsel, writer | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = University of Zimbabwe;
University of Graz;
University of Cambridge | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''An Elegy for Easterly'' (2009) | spouse = | partner = | children = 1 son | relatives = | awards = Guardian First Book Award | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }} Petina Gappah (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by ''Brittle Paper''. In 2017 she had a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship in Berlin. Provided by Wikipedia