Marion Molteno

Marion Molteno (born 1944 Bloemfontein, South Africa) is a South African novelist. She won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book, Africa.^[1] She won the 1993 David Thomas prize for A shield of coolest air.^[2]

Life

She studied the University of Cape Town, the University of Manchester, the School of Oriental and African Studies, obtained an MA from the Institute of Education.

She founded the South London Refugee Project. She was an advisor to Save the Children.

Family

She married Robert Molteno; they have two daughters.

Works

• A Language in Common, Women's Press, 1987, ISBN 978-0-7043-4050-3; Addenda, 2000, ISBN 978-0-9582186-0-3
• A Shield of Coolest Air, Shola Books, 1992, ISBN 978-0-9519752-0-6; Longstone, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9554373-4-2
• If You Can Walk, You Can Dance, Shola Books, 1998, ISBN 978-0-9519752-1-3
• Somewhere More Simple, Longstone, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9554373-0-4

References

1. http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02C26M062612627112
2. http://www.longstonebooks.co.uk/authors/Marion%20Molteno.html

External links

• Author's website
• Patrick Gale (4 May 2007). "Somewhere More Simple, by Marion Molteno". The Independent.