Kagiso Lesego Molope
Kagiso Lesego Molope is a South African Canadian writer. Born and raised in South Africa, Kagiso Lesego Molope graduated from the University of Cape Town and moved to Canada at age 21. She was the first Black author to win the Percy FitzPatrick Award.[1] She won the Ottawa Book Award in 2019.[2] [3] [4]
Works
- Dancing in the Dust, Mawenzi House, 2002
- The Mending Season, Oxford University Press, 2005
- This Book Betrays My Brother, Mawenzi House, 2018
- Such a Lonely Lovely Road, Mawenzi House, 2018
Prize and Awards
- 2014 Winner, Percy FitzPatrick Award (for This Book Betrays My Brother)
- 2019 Winner, Ottawa Book Award (for This Book Betrays My Brother)
- 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 Nominee, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
[5] [6] [7] <ref Kingston Writers Fest 2018 Kagiso Lesego Molope</ref> <ref>Kagiso Lesego Molope ALMA Award Nominee
References
- ^ "Kagiso Lesego Molope is at odds with Percy Fitzpatrick". Mail and Guardian. May 7, 2015.
- ^ "The Many Perspectives of Kagiso Lesego Molopes". Carleton Newsroom.
- ^ From South Africa to Canada: The writer’s journey of Ottawa’s Kagiso Lesego Molope/
- ^ “These Children Were the Product of a Changing Country”: The Feminist Bildungsroman and the Issue of Community in the Novels of Kagiso Lesego Molope
- ^ The House of Mothers: Constructing alternative forms of mothering in Kagiso Lesego Molope's The Mending Season
- ^ Myth of the Lying Woman”: An Analysis of Testimony in Contemporary South African Fiction
- ^ Kagiso Lesego Molope (CBC Books)
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