Henrietta is a South African author of four novels and two short-story collections, with a fifth novel (Stone Plant) in progress. Her novels Nineveh and Green Lion were shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and have been published internationally. In French translation, Nineveh won the François Sommer Literary Prize in 2015. Her collection of short stories, Animalia Paradoxa, was published in the UK in 2019. In 2012, ‘Sanctuary’ took second place in the BBC International Short Story Competition, and ‘Poison’ was awarded the 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing as well as the 2007 South African PEN Literary Award. Henrietta is also the winner of the 2023 UJ Prize for translation, the pre-eminent South African literary translation prize.

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'Henrietta Rose-Innes writes an admirably taut, clean prose … a welcome addition to the new South African literature.' J.M. Coetzee

 

“I love Henrietta Rose-Innes’s work. With plotlines that are wittily subversive and language that is whippet-lean, it is long overdue for discovery by a wider readership.' Patrick Gale

 

'Without contest among the most important voices of the new South African literature.' Catherine Simon, Le Monde