| LC control no. | n 93041123 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9390.9.V47 |
| Personal name heading | Vera, Yvonne |
| Located | Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) Canada |
| Birth date | 1964-09-19 |
| Death date | 2005-04-07 |
| Place of birth | Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) |
| Place of death | Toronto (Ont.) |
| Affiliation | York University (Toronto, Ont.) National Gallery of Zimbabwe |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Art museum directors Essayists |
| Found in | Her Why don't you carve other animals, 1992: title page (Yvonne Vera) cover page 4 (b. in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; graduate student of English literature at York Univ., Toronto) Butterfly burning, 2000: title page (Yvonne Vera) page (b. in 1964, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; now dir. of the National Gallery) Her The stone virgins, 2003: CIP title page (Yvonne Vera) data sheet (b. 19 Sept. 1964) Wikipedia WWW site, May 6, 2005 (Yvonne Vera; b. Sept. 19, 1964, Zimbabwe; d. Apr. 7, 2005, Canada; author, dir. of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo) The Guardian, Yvonne Vera: courageous Zimbabwean writer ... [obituary], Apr. 27, 2005, viewed online Mar. 14, 2014 (Yvonne Vera; after obtaining undergraduate and masters in 4 years at York University, she returned to Zimbabwe in 1995; became a regional director of the Zimbabwean national gallery in Bulawayo, 1997-2003; published 6 volumes of fiction since 1992; left Zimbabwe in 2004 to join her Canadian husband, fleeing political climate; died from meningitis at the age of 40) Wikipedia, Mar. 14, 2014 (Yvonne Vera; d. Toronto; also edited several anthologies by Zimbabwean women writers) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed, April 07, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Vera, Yvonne; fiction writer, essayist; born 19 September 1964 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; PhD from York University in Toronto (1995); director of Zimbabwean National Gallery in Bulawayo (1997-2003); published her novel, The Stone Virgins (2002); received Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Novel (Africa Region) (1997), Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa (2002) and Swedish PEN Tuscholski prize (2004); her novel Butterfly Burning (1998) is among Africa's Best 100 Books of the Twentieth Century; died 07 April 2005 in Toronto, Canada) |
| Associated language | eng |
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