Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

SIPHIWE GLORIA NDLOVU is the award-winning author of five novels, including The Last of the Innocents, The Creation of Half-Broken People, winner of the 2025 Sharjah Award for Best International Book, and The Theory of Flight, winner of the 2019 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Yale awarded Siphiwe a Windham-Campbell Prize in 2022, calling her a ‘chronicler and a conjurer whose soaring imagination creates a Zimbabwean past made of anguish and hope, of glory and despair’. Ndlovu is also a filmmaker and academic who holds a PhD from Stanford University as well as a Master’s in African Studies and Film from Ohio University. She was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.