Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

 

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
Booker Prize judge (en)
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Harare, 16 Satumba 1966 (59 shekaru)
ƙasa	Zimbabwe Birtaniya
Ƙabila	African people (en)
Karatu
Makaranta	Goshen College (en) Makarantar Arundel
Sana'a
Sana'a	ɗan jarida da marubuci
Kyaututtuka	gani OBE

Ellah Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL (an haife ta a ranar 16 ga watan Satumba shekarar 1966), itace Babban Edita a Littattafan Canongate, babban mai bincike ce a Jami'ar Manchester, kuma Shugabar Kyautar AKO Caine don Rubuce-rubucen Afirka.  Ita ce ta kafa Daraktan Buga na Indigo Press . Edita ce kuma mai sukar da ke zaune a London, ta kasance a cikin kwamitin yanke hukunci na Kyautar Littattafan Dublin ta Duniya ta shekarar 2017 da Kyautar Man Booker ta shekarar 2015. A shekara ta 2016, ta kasance Farfesa mai ziyara & Masanin Al'adu na Duniya a Kwalejin Goshen, Indiana, kuma ta kasance Jagora Mai Baƙo don ƙungiyar jarida ta duniya ta Gidauniyar Gabriel Garcia Marquez ta shekarar 2016 a Cartagena, Colombia. Tsohuwar mataimakiyar edita ta mujallar Granta, ita ce babban edita a Jonathan Cape, Random House kuma mataimakiyar Edita a Penguin . Ita ce edita ta jerin <i id="mwNg">Kwani?</i> Manufar Manuscript da editan tarihin Africa39 (Bloomsbury, 2014) da Safe House: Bincike a cikin Creative Nonfiction (Dundurn / Cassava Republic).

Ayyukanta na jarida sun bayyana a cikin jaridu na <i id="mwQg">Telegraph</i>, Guardian da Observer da kuma mujallu na Spectator da The Griffith Review . Ta kuma ba da gudummawa ga tarihin shekarar 2019 New Daughters of Africa . Ta kuma kasance mai ba da gudummawa na yau da kullun ga shafukan littattafai na NPR. Ta watsa shirye-shirye sun hada da sake dubawa ga NPR's All Things Considered da BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review. Ta zauna a cikin kwamitin zaɓe na Gidauniyar Rockefeller Bellagio Fellowship na tsawon shekaru bakwai kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin mai zaɓar adabi don Rolex 2014-15 Mentor & Protégée Initiative, tare da zama shugaban kwamitin Zaɓin Gidauniyoyin Miles Morland na tsawon shekaru uku. Tana zaune a kwamitin ba da shawara na Art for Amnesty da Editorial Advisory Panel na The Johannesburg Review of Books da Lagos Review of Books . A shekara ta 2011, an nada ta Jami'in Order of the British Empire (OBE) don hidimomi ga masana'antar wallafe-wallafen kuma a cikin shekarar 2019, an sanya ta Fellow mai daraja na Royal Society of Literature .

Tarihin rayuwa

An haife ta ne a Salisbury, Rhodesia, a ranar 16 ga watan Satumba shekarar 1966 ga marubucin Zimbabwe, ɗan jarida kuma mai bugawa Pius Wakatama kuma ɗan kasuwa kuma mai fafutukar kare hakkin mata Kirista Winnie Wakatama (née Ndoro), Ellah Wakatama ta shafe shekarunta na farko tsakanin Salisbury da tsakiyar yammacin Amurka yayin da mahaifinta ke karatu a Jami'ar Iowa .   Ta koma Rhodesia tana da shekaru 10, tana halartar Makarantar Arundel . Komawarta zuwa Amurka ta samo asali ne daga karatun koleji, wanda ya fara a Kwalejin Goshen, inda ta sami BA a fannin Jarida, ta ƙare a Jami'ar Rutgers, inda ta samu MA daga Makarantar Sadarwa, Bayanai da Nazarin Laburaren.  

Yanzu tana zaune a Landan, Burtaniya, tana aiki a matsayin Edita-a-Babban a Littattafan Canongate, Research Fellow a Jami'ar Manchester, da kuma Shugaban Kyautar Caine don Rubuce-rubucen Afirka.

Ita ce 'yar'uwar marubuciya kuma mai fafutukar haihuwar halitta Mavhu Farai Wakatama Hargrove da marigayi Nhamu Wakatama da Richard Wakatama .

Kyaututtuka

Fellow na Royal Society of the Arts, Allfrey an ba shi lambar yabo ta OBE a cikin Kyautar Sabuwar Shekara ta 2011 don hidimomi ga masana'antar wallafe-wallafen.

A cikin 2019, an zabe ta a matsayin Fellow na girmamawa na Royal Society of Literature .

An ba ta suna Brittle Paper's "Mutumin wallafe-wallafen Afirka na Shekara 2019". lambar yabo ce da ke nuna godiya ga mutanen da ke aiki a bayan fage don riƙe tsarin wallafe-wallafen Afirka.

Zaɓaɓɓun labarai da rubutun

• Binciken Call It Dog na Marli Roode (The Guardian, 28 ga watan Agusta shekarar 2013)
• "Babban Chinua Achebe shine mutumin da ya ba Afirka murya" (The Observer, 24 ga watan Maris shekarar 2013)
• "Dukkanin Girmama Renaissance na Afirka" (The Telegraph, 9 ga watan Satumba shekarar 2011)
• "Yaƙin al'adu ya ba mu littattafai da kiɗa na basira" (The Observer, 13 Afrilu 2013)
• "Masu rubuce-rubuce suna buƙatar sabbin hanyoyin magana game da tarihin Afirka da na yanzu" (The Guardian, 4 Yuni 2016)
• "Longchase" (Sabon 'ya'ya mata na Afirka, 2019)

Podcasts / bidiyo

• Guardian Books podcast: Labarin siyasa, 5 ga watan Afrilu shekarar 2013
• Ellah Wakatama Allfrey a kan Behind the Headlines, 3 ga watan Janairu shekarar 2011.
• Ellah Allfrey tana magana da Audible game da bugu na huɗu na Granta's "Best of Young British Novelists".

Ra'ayi

• "Littattafai 10 mafi kyau na Afirka na zamani". The Observer, 26 ga watan Agusta 2012 .
• An yi ƙaulin da Parselo Kantai, Nairobi, a cikin "Bincike: Littafin ya ƙare da sabon farawa", Rahoton Afirka, 8 ga watan Fabrairu shekarar 2012.
• "Ba Violet: Daga Booker na Afirka zuwa jerin Booker" (ambance)

Tattaunawa

• "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE a bayan jigogi", SW Radio Africa, 3 Janairu shekarar 2011.
• "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Granta a Nairobi, Kenya".
• Nyana Kakoma, "Ellah Wakatama Allfrey kan yadda ta zama edita da kuma dalilin da ya sa ya kamata a ƙware da gyara", African Writers Trust, 30 Yuni 2014.
• "...Masu bugawa da kansu da Gate-Keepers suna buƙatar ni da ƙwarewa. " Wata hira da Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Short Story Day Africa, 30 Nuwamba 2016.

Haɗin gwiwa

• Marubutan Afirka sun amince da bikin wallafe-wallafen, Uganda, Mayu 2012 .
• Makon wallafe-wallafen Nairobi, alƙali.
• Alkalin Kwani? Manuscript Project - kyautar wallafe-wallafen da marubutan Afirka suka wallafa ba.
• "Mai halartar Trans-Atlantic, Diaspora, da Afirka". - taron da Cibiyar Bincike ta Jami'ar Oxford ta shirya don Humanities, don tattauna sabbin ƙwarewar da ke fitowa daga fannoni masu alaƙa da Nazarin Diaspora da Nazarin Trans-Atlantic da aka samo daga Burtaniya, da kuma yadda waɗannan fannoni suka rabu kuma suka haɗu dangane da ra'ayin Afirka.
• Patron of Etisalat Prize for Literature - kyautar Afirka da ke murna da marubutan Afirka na farko na littattafan almara da aka buga.
• Alkalin 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize - lambar yabo don mafi kyawun ɗan gajeren labari da ba a buga ba (2000-5000 kalmomi) a Turanci.
• Mujallar Wasafiri (mai ba da gudummawa), Volume 22, Fitowa 3, 2007.
• Mai tambayoyin - Binyavanga Waina's Book Launch
• Peter Godwin, Tsoro: Kwanaki na Ƙarshe na Robert Mugabe (sanarwa).
• Alkalin 2010 Kyautar Caine don Rubuce-rubucen Afirka.
• Gabatarwa ga Kojo Laing, Mace ta Jiragen Sama.
• Alkalin 2011 don Kyautar David Cohen don Littattafai.
• Editan Afirka39: Sabon Rubuce-rubuce daga Afirka ta Kudu na Sahara (2014), tare da Gabatarwa ta Wole Soyinka
• Alkalin 2015 don Kyautar Man Booker
• Editan Safe House: Bincike a cikin Creative Nonfiction (Cassava Republic Press, 2016)
• Tattaunawa da Margaret Busby, Wasafiri, Nuwamba 2017 .

Haɗin waje

• Tattaunawa da Shalini Gidoomal: "Ellah Allfrey game da abin da ke buƙatar canzawa don ƙarin marubuta na Afirka don samun damar zama a teburin", YouTube, 28 ga Oktoba 2013.
• NPR: Shafin Ellah Allfrey, WNYC.
• Charles Henry Rowell, Callaloo/v036/36.3.rowell03.pdf" id="mwAvA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Tattaunawa da Ellah Allfrey", Callaloo, Volume 36, Number 3, Summer 2013, shafi na 753-57.  10.1353/cal.2013.0148
• Chimamanda Adichie ta tattauna da Ellah Allfrey (bidiyo) , Brittle Paper, 23 ga Mayu 2013.