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Karen Jennings is a South African writer whose novel An Island was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2021, with the follow-up longlisted for The Women's Prize in 2025. She currently lectures at North-West University. She received the K. Sello Duiker Memorial Award in 2021, and has won the Africa Region Prize of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Karen founded The Island Prize for unpublished African authors to help them get published globally. Now in its fifth year the prize has helped authors from all over the continent.
This is an extraordinary novel. It is shattering, almost bearable, yet—so good, so clear—it is unputdownable.’ * Roddy Doyle on Crooked Seeds * 'Absolutely brilliant and proof again…that fiction can tell us more about our human condition than most journalism can…an amazing book with an incredible story at the heart of it.’ * Michael Brissenden, ABC RN: The Book Shelf on Crooked Seeds * ‘An unsparing, yet profoundly beautiful novel.’ * Chigozie Obioma on Crooked Seeds * ‘Thoroughly absorbing… a small but powerful book, with the reach of a more capacious work, compounding merciless political critique and allegory rendered in tender prose.’ * Guardian on An Island *
