Henrietta Rose-Innes

Henrietta Rose-Innes (born 14 September 1971) is a South African novelist and short-story writer. She was the 2008 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing^[2] for her speculative-fiction story "Poison".^[3] Her novel Nineveh was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Prize for Fiction and the M-Net Literary Awards. In September of that year her story "Sanctuary" was awarded second place in the 2012 BBC (Inter)national Short Story Award.

Henrietta Rose-Innes
Born	Cape Town, South Africa
Occupation(s)	Novelist and short-story writer
Awards	Caine Prize for African Writing (2008)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Cape Town University of the Witwatersrand[1] University of East Anglia
Thesis	Edgeland encounters in the South African city : stone plant: a novel (2019)

Background

Rose-Innes was "born and bred" in Cape Town, South Africa.^[4]

She has been a Fellow in Literature at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2007–08) and has held residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center; Chateau de Lavigny, Lausanne; the kunst:raum sylt quelle, Sylt; Georgetown University; the University of Cape Town's Centre for Creative Writing; Caldera Arts Center, Oregon; and Hawthornden Castle Writer's Retreat, Scotland. She is a 2012 Gordon Fellow at the Gordon Institute for Creative and Performing Arts (GIPCA), University of Cape Town.^[5] She has a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.^[6]

Works

Novels

• Shark's Egg (2000)
• The Rock Alphabet (2004)
• Nineveh (2011)
• Green Lion (2015)

The Rock Alphabet has been published in Romanian (2007). Dream Homes: Schnappschüsse und Geschichten aus Kapstadt, collected essays and short stories, was published in German in 2008.^[7] Nineveh has been translated into French^[8] and Spanish^[9] (both 2015), and Green Lion has appeared in French as L'Homme au Lion (2016).^[10]

Short stories

• Homing (2010) (collection)

Other short pieces have appeared in a variety of international publications, including The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2011), The Granta Book of the African Short Story (2011) and Granta online.

Compilations

• Nice Times! A Book of South African Pleasures and Delights (compiled and edited by Rose-Innes, 2006).

Awards

• Winner of the South African English Olympiad
• Shortlisted, 2001 M-Net Literary Award for Shark's Egg
• Shortlisted, 2007 Caine Prize
• Winner of the 2007 Southern African PEN short-story award ^[11]
• Winner of the 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing^[2] for "Poison"^[3][12]
• Nineveh was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Prize for Fiction and the M-Net Literary Awards.
• Short story "Sanctuary" awarded second place in the 2012 BBC (Inter)national Short Story Award.^[13]

See also

• List of South Africans
• List of South African writers