Tendai Huchu, Byres Road Book Festival, Sunday 24 September, 2017
Tendai Huchu photography Bob McDevitt
12.30 – 1.30 p.m.
Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AP
Tendai Huchu’s first novel The Hairdresser of Harare was released in 2010 to critical acclaim, and has been translated into French, German, Spanish and Italian. His multi-genre short stories and nonfiction have appeared in the Manchester Review, Interzone, Space and Time Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, the Africa Report, Wasafiri, the Year’s Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016 and elsewhere.
Between projects, he translates fiction between the Shona and English languages. He was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2014, and the Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction in 2017. His latest novel is The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician.
Tendai will be in discussion with Kaite Welsh, whose latest novel, The Wages of Sin, a historical crime novel set in the underworld of Victorian Edinburgh was published in June 2017.
Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Rd, Glasgow G12 8AP
Find him @TendaiHuchu or on www.tendaihuchu.com.
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