About
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu is the author of the bestselling novel The Theory of Flight, winner of the 2019 Sunday Times Fiction Prize and currently a school set work, and its follow-up, The History of Man. A winner of Yale University’s 2022 Windham Campbell Prize, she is a writer, filmmaker, and academic who holds a PhD from Stanford University as well as master’s degrees in African Studies and Film from Ohio University. She has published research on Saartjie Baartman and she wrote, directed, and edited the award-winning short film Graffiti. She was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
Photograph © Nokuthula Sarah Ndhlovu
