Rachel Zadok’s first novel, Gem Squash Tokoloshe, was shortlisted for The Whitbread First Novel Award (2005) and The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (2005). In 2011, she launched Short Story Day Africa, an initiative to highlight African short fiction. Her writing has appeared in the Observer, the Jewish Chronicle, the Independent and African Violet, the 2012 Caine Prize Anthology. Her latest novel, Sister-Sister, was released in 2013.
