Ranka Primorac has degrees from the Universities of Zagreb, Harare and Nottingham Trent. She is the author of The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe (I.B. Tauris, London, forthcoming [2006]) and co-editor (with Robert Muponde) of Versions of Zimbabwe: New Approaches to Literature and Culture (Weaver Press, Harare, 2005). She teaches at the Africana Studies Department of New York University (NYU) in London.