Zambian writer Carla Namwali Serpell, was born in 1980 in Lusaka. Her father is a professor at the University of Zambia while her mother is an economist.
She moved from Zambia to Baltimore at the age of nine and was educated in the United States where she studied literature at Havard and Yale.
Since 2008, Carla has lived in California where she works as an associate professor of English at the University of California.
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She has won awards with her short story “The Sack” which won her the 2015 Caine Prize for African fiction in English. Also, her story “Muzungu” was shortlisted in 2010 for the Caine Prize, an annual award for African short fiction in English. In 2011, she was awarded the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a prize for beginning women writers.
Carla was the first Zambian to win a Caine Prize. In addition to The sack and Muzungu, she also wrote other stories like “Double Men”and “Account”.
