found: Her Why don't you carve other animals, 1992:title page (Yvonne Vera) cover page 4 (b. in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; graduate student of English literature at York Univ., Toronto)
found: Butterfly burning, 2000:title page (Yvonne Vera) page (b. in 1964, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; now dir. of the National Gallery)
found: Her The stone virgins, 2003:CIP title page (Yvonne Vera) data sheet (b. 19 Sept. 1964)
found: Wikipedia WWW site, May 6, 2005(Yvonne Vera; b. Sept. 19, 1964, Zimbabwe; d. Apr. 7, 2005, Canada; author, dir. of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo)
found: The Guardian, Yvonne Vera: courageous Zimbabwean writer ... [obituary], Apr. 27, 2005, viewed online Mar. 14, 2014(Yvonne Vera; after obtaining undergraduate and masters in 4 years at York University, she returned to Zimbabwe in 1995; became a regional director of the Zimbabwean national gallery in Bulawayo, 1997-2003; published 6 volumes of fiction since 1992; left Zimbabwe in 2004 to join her Canadian husband, fleeing political climate; died from meningitis at the age of 40)
found: Wikipedia, Mar. 14, 2014(Yvonne Vera; d. Toronto; also edited several anthologies by Zimbabwean women writers)
found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed, April 07, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Vera, Yvonne; fiction writer, essayist; born 19 September 1964 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; PhD from York University in Toronto (1995); director of Zimbabwean National Gallery in Bulawayo (1997-2003); published her novel, The Stone Virgins (2002); received Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Novel (Africa Region) (1997), Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa (2002) and Swedish PEN Tuscholski prize (2004); her novel Butterfly Burning (1998) is among Africa's Best 100 Books of the Twentieth Century; died 07 April 2005 in Toronto, Canada)