Interview: Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Award-winning Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu discusses her work focusing on the historical, cultural, and societal aspects of Zimbabwe.

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu is a Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker whose work focuses on the historical, cultural, and societal aspects of Zimbabwe. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed City of Kings trilogy, consisting of novels The Theory of Flight (The Sunday Times Fiction Prize), The History of Man, and The Quality of Mercy.

In 2022 Ndlovu received the Wyndham-Campbell Award at the Yale University for her literary work. The board describes her as follows:

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu is both a chronicler and a conjurer whose soaring imagination creates a Zimbabwean past made of anguish and hope, of glory and despair: the story of the generations born at the crossroads of a country’s history.

Currently, Ndlovu is a Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts in Helsinki. The interview is conducted by Jussi Valtonen, a Finlandia prize-winning author and the Professor of Writing at the University of the Arts, Helsinki.

Tekstin talo

25.4.2024

17.00-18.00

Free entry

The event will be held in English

The discussion is a part of Kallion kirjallisuusfestivaali (Kallio Literary Festival) programme