Author: Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu is an award-winning Zimbabwean author, literary scholar, and filmmaker. Her first two novels—The Theory of Flight (2018) and The History of Man (2020)—were the recipients of considerable critical acclaim. Fusing together a range of histories and registers, The Theory of Flight won the 2019 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize. Her third novel, The Quality of Mercy, was shortlisted for the South African Literary Award for Fiction in 2023. Siphiwe holds a doctorate in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, as well as a master’s degree in African Studies and Film from Ohio University. She has published research on Saartjie Baartman and wrote, directed, and edited the award-winning short film Graffiti. She is a recipient of a 2018 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship and was a 2020 Writing Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS). In 2022, she was awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize and judged the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2024.