Fatima Kara is a Zimbabwean writer living in the USA. The Train House on Lobengula Street, her first novel, grows out of her childhood experiences in the Indian community in Bulawayo, Rhodesia and the inspirational response of the community’s strong women to the racial discrimination that was extended towards all non-Whites.The book was shortlisted for the UK's Laxfield Literary Launch Prize in 2020 and won the Outstanding First Creative Published Work prize in Zimbabwe's 2024 National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA), the country's premier arts and culture accolade.The author has an MFA from Spalding University in Kentucky. When not writing, she propagates fruit and nut trees, and plants them in schools and rural communities around Zimbabwe.The author has an MFA from Spalding University in Kentucky. When not writing, she propagates fruit and nut trees, and plants them in schools and rural communities around Zimbabwe.

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Fatima Kara is a Zimbabwean writer living in the USA. The Train House on Lobengula Street, her first novel, grows out of her childhood experiences in the Indian community in Bulawayo, Rhodesia and the inspirational response of the community’s strong women to the racial discrimination that was extended towards all non-Whites.The book was shortlisted for the UK's Laxfield Literary Launch Prize in 2020 and won the Outstanding First Creative Published Work prize in Zimbabwe's 2024 National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA), the country's premier arts and culture accolade.The author has an MFA from Spalding University in Kentucky. When not writing, she propagates fruit and nut trees, and plants them in schools and rural communities around Zimbabwe.The author has an MFA from Spalding University in Kentucky. When not writing, she propagates fruit and nut trees, and plants them in schools and rural communities around Zimbabwe.

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Fatima Kara is a Zimbabwean writer living in the USA. The Train House on Lobengula Street, her first novel, grows out of her childhood experiences in the Indian community in Bulawayo, Rhodesia and the inspirational response of the community’s strong women to the racial discrimination that was extended towards all non-Whites.The book was shortlisted for the UK's Laxfield Literary Launch Prize in 2020 and won the Outstanding First Creative Published Work prize in Zimbabwe's 2024 National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA), the country's premier arts and culture accolade.The author has an MFA from Spalding University in Kentucky. When not writing, she propagates fruit and nut trees, and plants them in schools and rural communities around Zimbabwe.The author has an MFA from Spalding University in Kentucky. When not writing, she propagates fruit and nut trees, and plants them in schools and rural communities around Zimbabwe.

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