Henrietta Rose-Innes is a South African writer based in Cape Town. Her novel 'Nineveh' came out in 2011 and has been shortlisted for the M-Net Literary Award and the Sunday Times Fiction Prize. She's previously published a collection of short stories, 'Homing', and two novels: 'Shark's Egg' and 'The Rock Alphabet', as well as a South African miscellany, 'Nice Times!' In 2012 her story 'Sanctuary' came second in the BBC International Short Story Prize. In 2008 she won the Caine Prize for African Writing, for which she was shortlisted in 2007. Also in 2007, she was awarded the 2007 South African PEN award for her short story, 'Poison'.