Lewis Nkosi

Lewis Nkosi

Lewis Nkosi (born December 5, 1936 in Durban , † September 5, 2010 in Johannesburg ) was a South African writer , university lecturer , journalist and composer .

biography

Nkosi began his career as a journalist with the in isiZulu appearing daily newspaper Ilanga lase Natal , before the beginning of the 1950s the magazine Drum changed. When he received a grant from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism to study at Harvard University in 1960 , he was forced to leave South Africa and was in exile until 1991 .

In the following years he was professor of literature at universities in Zambia , Warsaw , London , the University of California, Irvine and the University of Wyoming .

During this time he began as a writer and wrote stage works such as The Rhythm of Violence (1964), The Black Psychiatrist (2001) and We Can't All Be Martin Luther King . He has also published novellas such as Mating Birds (1986), Underground People (2002) and Mandela's Ego (2006) as well as numerous volumes of essays .

In 2008 he received the Order of Ikhamanga in silver.

bibliography

• White shadows. , Original title: Mating Birds, German by Eva Bornemann
  • Ullstein Verlag 1990, ISBN 3-548-22235-8 , revised new edition: dtv 2003, ISBN 3-423-13103-9 .
• Mandela and the bull from Mondi. Original title: Mandela's Ego, German by Thomas Brückner, Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 2008, ISBN 978-3-7795-0198-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Lewis Nkosi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary in the Sunday Times (September 7, 2010 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary on book.co.za ( memento of the original from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 29, 2010 
2. ↑ List of recipients of the medal 2008 (English), accessed on January 22, 2016