Zukiswa Wanner
Zukiswa Wanner is a South African journalist and novelist. Her debut novel, The Madams, was shortlisted for the K. Sello Duiker Award in 2007.[1] Her novel, Men of the South, was shortlisted for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.[2] In April 2014 Wanner was named on the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define trends in African literature.[3] She also won the K Sello Duiker Prize for her most recent novel London Cape Town Joburg [4]
Life
Zukiswa Wanner was born 1976 in Lusaka, Zambia, to a South African father and a Zimbabwean mother.[5] After receiving primary and secondary education in Zimbabwe, she studied for a degree in journalism at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu and has written for a range of South African newspapers and magazines. She currently lives in Nairobi, Kenya.
She is a founding member of the ReadSA initiative, a campaign encouraging South Africans to read South African works.[1][5] She also sits on the pan-African literary initiative, Writivism's Board of Trustees. Wanner was also one of three judges of the sole Pan-African literary prize for long prose, the Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2015. [6]
Works
Novels
- The Madams, Oshun, 2006
- Behind Every Successful Man, Kwela Books, 2008
- Men of the South, Kwela Books, 2010
- London Cape Town Joburg, Kwela Books, 2014
Non-fiction
- 8115: A Prisoner's Home with Alf Kumalo, Penguin, 2010
- Maid in SA: 30 Ways to Leave Your Madam, Jacana, 2010
Children's books
- Jama Loves Bananas, Jacana, 2013
- Refilwe (an African retelling of "Rapunzel"), Jacana, 2014
Awards
- Twenty in 20 best stories in South African literature. [7]
- K Sello Duiker Prize 2015 for London Cape Town Joburg [8]
References
- 1 2 Guardian Profile: Zukiswa Wanner
- ↑ 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize shortlists announced, 11 February 2011.
- ↑ Africa39 list of artists, Hay Festival.
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Literary_Awards_(SALA)
- 1 2 Biographical info: Zukiswa Wanner
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etisalat_Prize_for_Literature
- ↑ http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2014/07/22/the-twenty-in-20-final-list-the-best-short-stories-of-south-africa%E2%80%99s-democracy/
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Literary_Awards_(SALA)
External links
- Ambrose Musiyiwa, Zukiswa Wanner: Interview 1, Conversations with Writers, November 2008.
- Janet van Eeden, Zukiswa Wanner, author of Men of the South, LitNet, 17 August 2010.
- "Reading 2010: Zukiswa Wanner (South Africa)", Wealth of Ideas, 1 February 2011.
- In a Conversation with South African Writer, Zukiswa Wanner, Geosi Reads, 17 February 2011.
- Ambrose Musiyiwa, Zukiswa Wanner: Interview 2, Conversations with Writers, 19 February 2011.
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