Sindiwe Magona

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Sindiwe Magona (born August 23, 1943 in Gungululu , Transkei ) is a South African writer and suffragette .

Life

Magona grew up in Gugulethu , a township near Cape Town , as the first of eight children. She graduated from a correspondence school. For a long time she worked as a teacher at a primary school . She graduated from the University of South Africa and earned a Masters Degree in Social Work from Columbia University in New York . Until 2003 she worked for the United Nations for twenty years .

She was Writer in Residence at the University of the Western Cape and worked at Georgia State University .

Magona writes about poverty, working as a domestic servant, being a woman and the resistance in the apartheid system , among other things . She wrote an autobiography, short stories, short stories, poems and plays. She is also committed to literature in her mother tongue isiXhosa .

bibliography

  • 1990: To My Children's Children.
    • German as: To the children of my children. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992.
  • 1991: Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night.
  • 1993: Bitter nectar of the night. Stories. dipa, Frankfurt am Main.
  • 1998: Mother to Mother.
  • 1998: Forced to Grow.
  • 2001: Push Push (Bluestreak). Beacon Press
  • 2008: Beauty's Gift. Kwela Books
  • 2009: Please, Take Photographs. Modjaji Books
  • 2014: The Woman on the Moon. New Africa Books and Worldreader

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d portrait at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on November 19, 2015
  2. ↑ Description at regione.puglia.it (Italian), accessed on November 18, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Magona, Sindiwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Gungululu , Transkei