Африкадағы өмір және әдебиет: Александра Фуллердің тағдыры

British Zimbabwean author

Alexandra Fuller (born 1969) is a British Rhodesian author. Her articles and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Granta, The New York Times, The Guardian and The Financial Times.

In 1972 Fuller moved with her family to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). She was educated at boarding schools in Umtali and Salisbury (renamed Harare after 1982). She met her American husband, Charlie Ross, in Zambia, where he was running a rafting business for tourists. In 1994, they moved to his home state of Wyoming. Fuller and Ross divorced in 2012. They have three children. She currently spends much of her time in a yurt near Jackson, Wyoming.

Fuller received a B. A. from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2007 she received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the same institution.

The memoir follows Fuller, called Bobo by her family, and her sister and parents as they move from England to Rhodesia and other points in Central Africa. The book mainly focuses on stories of family life while moving around Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Malawi and Zambia. The Rhodesian Bush War, or Second Chimurenga, serves as a backdrop to the family's time in Rhodesia. After the Rhodesian Bush War, the Fullers move to Malawi and then Zambia. Fuller does not hide the effect her mother's alcoholism had on her childhood and is frank about her father's casual racism. Fuller writes about living through a war, being white while growing up in an almost all black country, and the death of siblings and beloved animals.

Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness, Waterville, Me. : Thorndike 2011. ,
Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier, London: Picador, 2004. ,
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: an African childhood, London: Picador, 2015. ,
Leaving Before the Rains Come. ULVERSCROFT, 2017. ,