Karen Fisher, author of “A Sudden Country” and winner of the 2006 First Novelist Award, said “The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo” was “stunningly observed, with very generous and funny writing.” Excerpts from “The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo” can be found at Blackbird, the online literary journal of VCU and New Virginia Review Inc. “The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo” beat out fellow finalists “The Best People in the World” by Justin Tussing “Cellophane” by Marie Ana and “The Fugitive Wife” by Peter C. Orner, also the author of a collection of short stories called “Esther Stories,” will travel to the annual First Novelist ceremony in the fall at VCU, where he will receive a $1,000 cash prize.
The First Novelist Award recognizes the best debut novel published during a calendar year. Peter Orner is the winner of the 2007 VCU First Novelist Award for “The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo,” his critically praised novel set at a remote school in Namibia.
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