Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Zimbabwean editor and literary critic

Date of Birth: 16-Sep-1966

Place of Birth: Harare, Harare Province, Zimbabwe

Profession: writer, journalist

Nationality: Zimbabwe

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

  • Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE, Hon, FRSL (born 16 September 1966), is Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books, a senior Research Fellow at Manchester University and Chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing.
  • She was the founding Publishing Director of the Indigo Press.
  • A London-based editor and critic, she was on the judging panel of the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award and the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
  • In 2016, she was Visiting Professor & Global Intercultural Scholar at Goshen College, Indiana, and was Guest Master for the 2016 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Foundation international journalism fellowship in Cartagena, Colombia.
  • The former deputy editor of Granta magazine, she was senior editor at Jonathan Cape, Random House and assistant editor at Penguin.
  • She is series editor of the Kwani? Manuscript Project and the editor of the anthologies Africa39 (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction (Dundurn/Cassava Republic).
  • Her journalism has appeared in the Telegraph, Guardian and Observer newspapers and in Spectator and The Griffith Review magazines, and she is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa.
  • She has also been a regular contributor to the books pages of NPR.
  • Her broadcasting includes reviews for NPR’s All Things Considered and BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review.
  • She sat on the selection panel for the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship for seven years and served as a literature selector for the Rolex 2014–15 Mentor & Protégée Initiative, as well as serving as chair of the Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship Selection panel for three years.
  • She sits on the Advisory board for Art for Amnesty and the Editorial Advisory Panel of the Johannesburg Review of Books and the Lagos Review of Books.
  • In 2011 she was awarded an OBE for services to the publishing industry and was made and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019.

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