Miriam Tlali

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Miriam Masoli Tlali [ ˈtlɑdi ] (* 1933 in Johannesburg ; incorrectly occasionally Miriam Tladi ; † February 24, 2017 ) was a South African writer . She was the first black South African woman to publish a book in her home country and one of the first women writers to write about Soweto .

Life

Miriam Tlali was born in the Doornfontein district of Johannesburg and grew up in the Sophiatown district . She enrolled at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, but admission was withdrawn because of her skin color. From then on she studied in Lesotho at what was then Pius XII College in Roma .

Miriam Tlali wrote the semi-autobiographical work Between Two Worlds in 1969 , which appeared in 1975 as Muriel at Metropolitan and was banned in South Africa in 1979. It was published in the same year by Longman African Classics under the original title and in 1989 in a German translation as Divided World . In it, Tlali describes the life of poor black people in the rich city of Johannesburg.

Other books are Amandla! (1980), which deals with the 1976 Soweto uprising and was banned shortly after its publication, Mihloti (1984) and Soweto Stories , which appeared in 1989. She also wrote the play Crimen Injuria . In Germany, her books Divided World and Soweto Stories (1992) were published by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag .

Miriam Tlali was co-founder of Staffrider magazine in 1978 , which was intended to encourage creative writing against apartheid and for which she wrote the column Soweto Speaking , and co-founder of the book publisher Skotaville .

It was included in the anthology Daughters of Africa , edited in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.

Others

The spelling of Miriam Tlali's last name corresponds to the spelling of Sesotho that is customary in Lesotho , i.e. Tlali instead of Tladi , as is common in South Africa .

Awards

  • The Miriam Tladi Book and Reading Club in Johannesburg was named after Miriam Tlali.

Works

  • 1979: Between Two Worlds . Roman, Longman African Classics (abbreviated as: Muriel at Metropolitan ).
    • German translation by Michela Huber: Divided World, a novel from South Africa , with a portrait of the author by Brigitte von Seckendorff-Kourgierakis (= Fischer Taschenbuch 4710: Die Frau in der Gesllschaft ), Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-596 -24710-1 .
  • 1980: Amandla! , Ravan Press.
  • 1984: Mihloti , Skotaville Press.
  • 1989: Soweto Stories . Stories. Pandora Press / Unwin Hyman Ltd., London (also as: Footprints in the Quag ).
    • German translation by Brigitte von Seckendorff-Kourgierakis: Soweto-Stories . With an introduction by Lauretta Ngcobo (= Fischer Taschenbuch 10558: Die Frau in der Gesellschaft ). Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-10558-7 .

literature

  • Christina Cullhed: Grappling With Patriarchies: Narrative Strategies of Resistance in Miriam Tlali's Writings (= Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia. Volume 131). Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala 2006, ISBN 91-554-6516-1 (Dissertation University of Uppsala 2006, 233 pages, English).
  • Kagiso Lesego Molope: Miriam Tlali. In: Moustapha Diallo (ed.): Visionaries of Africa: the continent in unusual portraits. Hammer, Wuppertal 2014, ISBN 978-3-7795-0487-0 , table of contents ; Content ; Pp. 323-326.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Barbara Boswell: Rest in power, Miriam Tlali: author, enemy of apartheid and feminist. In: The Conversation. Retrieved March 3, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ Biography Miriam Tlalis (English, archive version from 2010)
  3. ↑ The prohibition of their work was not an isolated case at this point in time. In 1979 the South African Parliament passed the Publications Amendment Act ( Act No. 44/1977 ), as a result of which a large number of publications by the most varied of authors that were designated as legally "undesirable" were banned . This also extended to works published abroad. In addition, there were new legal measures to restrict press activities. Source: SAIRR : Survey of Race relations in South Africa 1979. Johannesburg 1980, pp. 158–161.
  4. ↑ questia.com , accessed December 8, 2009.
  5. ^ Club website , accessed January 18, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Tlali, Miriam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tlali, Miriam Masoli (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2017