Ellah allfrey biography
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE was born in Zimbabwe and raised there and in the United States.
A London-based editor and critic, she was on the judging panel of the International Dublin Literary Award and the Man Booker Prize.!
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
Zimbabwean editor and literary critic (born 1966)
Ellah Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL (born 16 September 1966),[1] is the Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books,[2] a senior Research Fellow at Manchester University, and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.[3] She was the founding Publishing Director of the Indigo Press.[4] A London-based editor and critic, she was on the judging panel of the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award and the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
In 2016, she was a Visiting Professor & Global Intercultural Scholar at Goshen College, Indiana, and was the Guest Master for the 2016 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Foundation international journalism fellowship in Cartagena, Colombia.
The former deputy editor of Granta magazine,[5][6] she was the senior editor at Jonathan Cape, Random House and an assistant editor at Penguin. She is the series editor of the Kwani? Manuscript P