Thando Mgqolozana

Thando Mgqolozana (born Cape Town, South Africa, 27 August 1983) is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, a recipient of the Golden Key International Honour for Scholastic Achievement, and one of the Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans of 2010.[1] He has previously worked as a researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council and is now based at the University of Cape Town.

Mgqolozana is the author of Hear Me Alone (2011), A Man Who Is Not a Man (2009), a novel that enjoyed critical success and was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award,[2] and Unimportance (2014).

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  1. ↑ "200 Young South Africans: Arts and Culture", Mail & Guardian, 14 June 2010.
  2. ↑ "Behr, Coetzee, Heese, Mda, Mgqolozana, Pauw, Schierhout Make the €100 000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist", Books Live, 15 November 2010.
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