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Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (born 16 September 1966) is a Zimbabwe-born editor and literary critic. She is a former Deputy Editor of ''Granta'' (2009–13)〔Benedicte Page, ("Allfrey joins Granta Magazine" ), ''The Bookseller'', 20 July 2009.〕〔(''Granta'' website. )〕〔Joshua Farrington, ("Allfrey to leave Granta" ), ''The Bookseller'', 3 May 2013.〕 and former Senior Editor at Jonathan Cape, Random House. She sits on the board of the Writers' Centre Norwich,〔("The board" ), Writers' Centre Norwich.〕 has been Deputy Chair of the Council of the Caine Prize for African Writing〔("Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE – Deputy Chairperson" ), The Caine Prize, Council Members.〕 since 2011〔("Caine Prize announce Ben Okri as Vice President and Ellah Allfrey as Deputy Chair" ), Caine Prize press release 26 April 2011.〕 and is a patron of the new Etisalat Prize for Literature.〔(Prize Profile ), Etisalat Prize for Literature.〕 She was the 2013 Chair of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Allfrey's journalism has appeared in ''The Telegraph'', ''The Guardian'' and ''The Observer'' and she is a regular contributor to the book pages of NPR. Her broadcasting includes a series of author interviews for Granta.com and she contributes regularly to NPR's ''All Things Considered'' and BBC Radio 4's ''Saturday Review''. In 2011 Allfrey was on the judging panel of both the David Cohen Prize and the Caine Prize. In 2012 she was chair of the fiction panel for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.〔(Judge Spotlight: Ellah Allfrey ), NGC Bocas Lit Fest website.〕 Her introduction to ''Woman of the Aeroplanes'' by Kojo Laing (Heinemann African Writers Series) was published in 2012.〔(''Woman of the Aeroplanes'' ), African Writers Series, Pearson.〕 She edited the anthology ''Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara'' (2014), showcasing the writers in the Africa39 initiative.〔Mukoma Wa Ngugi, ("Beauty, Mourning, and Melancholy in Africa39" ), ''Los Angeles Review of Books'', 9 November 2014.〕 She has been announced as a judge of the Man Booker Prize for 2015.〔("2015 Man Booker Prize Judges Announced, Including Caine Prize Council Member Ellah Allfrey" ), Books Live, 15 December 2014.〕 A Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts,〔("Ellah Allfrey" ), RSA.〕 Allfrey was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to the publishing industry.〔Richard R. Aguirre, ("A royal honor for Ellah Wakatama Allfrey" ), Goshen College website, 4 April 2011.〕 ==Selected articles== * Review of ''Call It Dog'' by Marli Roode (''The Guardian'', 28 August 2013) * "The great Chinua Achebe was the man who gave Africa a voice" (''The Observer'', 24 March 2013)〔(Comment is free ), ''The Observer'', 24 March 2013.〕 * "All Hail the African Renaissance" (''The Telegraph'', 9 September 2011) * "The cultural battle gave us books and music of genius" (''The Observer'', 13 April 2013)〔Quoted in ("Margaret Thatcher and her influence on women" ), ''The Observer'', 13 April 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ellah Wakatama Allfrey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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