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NoViolet Bulawayo ‘donates’ £10k scholarship

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LAGOS — Winner of the maiden edition of the Etisalat Prize for Literature, NoViolet Bulawayo has, in a genuine demonstration of sportsmanship

LAGOS — Winner of the maiden edition of the Etisalat Prize for Literature, NoViolet Bulawayo has, in a genuine demonstration of sportsmanship, gifted her runner-up, Yewande Omotoso the Fellowship attached to her winning.

Expressing her magnanimity, the author of We Need New Names, Bulawayo said: “My prior commitment to a fellowship at Stanford University will not permit me to take advantage of the Etisalat Fellowship aspect of the prize and I have gifted it to my runner-up, Omotoso in the hope that her participation would further promote the values that Etisalat Nigeria sought to achieve with this literary prize.”

The Etisalat Fellowship is a unique £10 000 fellowship to the winner of the Etisalat Prize for Literature lasting four months in the United Kingdom, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich and mentored by Professor Giles Foden, author of the Last King of Scotland.

The fellow will take residency at the University of East Anglia joining members of the school of literature, drama and creative writing.

Bulawayo and Omotoso are set to attend the World’s Literature Festival 2014 which takes place during the fellowship.

The Worlds Festival, run by Writers Centre Norwich, hosts a gathering of writers from across the globe to celebrate and discuss works of literature.

Nobel Laureate and MAN Booker Prize Winner J M Coetzee is one of the writers participating at this year’s festival. — etisalatprize.com