George Makana Clark

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George Makana Clark
Alma mater Florida State University
Employer University of Wisconsin-Madison
Notable workThe Raw Man
TitleProfessor emeritus
Awards O'Henry Prize

George Makana Clark is a writer born in Rhodesia and living in Portugal. He is the author of the 2011 novel The Raw Man, as well as "The Center of the World", a short story for which he won the 2006 O'Henry Prize.

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Education

Clark earned a PhD from Florida State University. [1]

Career

In 1997, Clark published a short story collection called The Small Bees' Honey. He has seven stories anthologized in The Best American Short Stories series. [1] In 2006 Clark won the O'Henry Prize for his short story "The Center of the World," published in the Georgia Review . [2]

In 2011 Clark published The Raw Man. The Guardian said the novel, set during the Zimbabwean war for independence, "captures liminal characters at a liminal moment in Zimbabwe's history." [3] The novel was translated into French by Cécile Chartres and Elisabeth Samama [4] as Les Douze Portes dans la maison du sergent Gordon. [5]


References

  1. 1 2 "George Clark". English. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  2. ↑ "The O. Henry Prize Stories". Random House. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Habila, Helon (3 June 2011). "The Raw Man by George Makana Clark - review". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  4. ↑ Hecht, Emmanuel (August 31, 2015). "George Makana Clark l'Africain". L'Express. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  5. ↑ Ovaldé, Véronique (21 April 2016). "Seconde chance. Le liseur de sang". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 16 September 2016.
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