Henrietta Rose-Innes


Henrietta Rose-Innes is a South African novelist and short-story writer. She was the 2008 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing for her speculative-fiction story "Poison". Her novel Nineveh was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Prize for Fiction and the M-Net Literary Awards. In September of that year her story "Sanctuary" was awarded second place in the 2012 BBC national Short Story Award.
Rose-Innes has been a Fellow in Literature at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart and has held residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center; Chateau de Lavigny, Lausanne; the, Sylt; Georgetown University; the University of Cape Town's Centre for Creative Writing; Caldera Arts Center, Oregon; and Hawthornden Castle Writer's Retreat, Scotland. She is a 2012 Gordon Fellow at the Gordon Institute for Creative and Performing Arts, University of Cape Town. She is currently studying towards a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Works

;Novels
Nineveh has been translated into French and Spanish, and Green Lion has appeared in French as L'Homme au Lion. The Rock Alphabet has been published in Romanian. Dream Homes: Schnappschüsse und Geschichten aus Kapstadt, collected essays and short stories, was published in German in 2008.
;Short stories
Other short pieces have appeared in a variety of international publications, including The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Granta Book of the African Short Story and "Granta" online.
;Compilations