Karen Jennings is a South African writer whose novel An Island waslonglisted for the Booker Prize in 2021. She is currently writer-in-residenceas a post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past,Stellenbosch University. She was given the K. Sello Duiker Memorial Award in2021, and has won the Africa Region Prize of the Commonwealth Short StoryCompetition. Her first novel, Finding Soutbek, was shortlisted for the EtisalatPrize. Travels with my Father, a memoir, has been a set university text inSouth Africa, and been successful in India and the UK.Karen co-founded The Island Prize for unpublished Africanauthors to help them get published globally. Now in its third year the prizehas helped authors from all over the continent, with both winners beingpublished in the UK.
