How Petina Gappah Secured Zimbabwe’s Eligibility for the FT/Oppenheimer Emerging Voices Award

The Financial Times/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards is “designed to recognize artistic talent in emerging-market nations.” It honours winners in three categories—art, fiction, and film—with each receiving $40,000 award, with two runners-up in each category receiving $5,000. The inaugural fiction award, in 2015, came home to Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen. But when the FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices […]