Who wrote the novel Purple Hibiscus , which tells of a girl growing up in a wealthy Nigerian family, caught between privilege and cruelty, and which was shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction?
How many times has South African novelist J.M. Coetzee won the Booker Prize?
Which writer published collections of poetry called The Chattering Wagtails in Mikuyu Prison and Of Chameleons and Gods after his term of imprisonment without trial in Malawi?
Which book by Ben Okri won the Booker Prize in 1991?
Which South African writer, now Professor of English at the University of Cape Town, wrote the 1979 book A Dry White Season which was made into a film starring Marlon Brando?
Who is the heroine of Alexander McCall Smith's popular series of books centred around a detective agency in Botswana?
Which of the following is a classic novel by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, set in a Kenya on the verge of independence?
Whose novel Bitter Fruit - the story of a disintegrating family set against the backdrop of the 'new' South Africa - was shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize?
What was the title of Helon Habila's first novel, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2003, and which tells the story of a young journalist caught up in a worsening political situation?
Who wrote the classic novel Things Fall Apart - likened to a Greek tragedy - which tells the story of Okonkwo, a respected, renowned man who gradually loses everything?
