Ahead of the Guardian First Book Prize announcement – Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly is shortlisted – Percy Zvomuya gets to know the Zimbabwean author better:
Describe yourself in a sentence.
Standing 155cm in her bare feet, but benefiting from an additional 12 centimetres in her favourite platform wedges, Zimbabwean lawyer and writer Petina Gappah is round-faced, optimistic, energetic, highly opinionated and easily amused, a devourer of books, lover of fashion, opera and the music of the Bhundu Boys, and an inveterate traveller who believes that the best hair-braiders in Africa are to be found at Kenyatta Market in Nairobi.
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