Lauri Kubuitsile

Lauri Kubuitsile writes books for adults, young adults, and children, including detective novellas, romance novels, and short stories. Her novel The Scattering won the prize for best international fiction at the Sharjah International Book Fair in 2017 and has since been published in the United States. She is a past winner of the bta/Anglo Platinum Short Story Contest and the recipient of the Botswana Ministry of Youth and Culture's Orange Botswerere Award for Creative Writing. She won the...See more

Lauri Kubuitsile writes books for adults, young adults, and children, including detective novellas, romance novels, and short stories. Her novel The Scattering won the prize for best international fiction at the Sharjah International Book Fair in 2017 and has since been published in the United States. She is a past winner of the bta/Anglo Platinum Short Story Contest and the recipient of the Botswana Ministry of Youth and Culture's Orange Botswerere Award for Creative Writing. She won the Golden Baobab Prize in two categories and was shortlisted for the 2011 Caine Prize. She lives in Botswana. See less