Thando Mgqolozana

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Thando Mgqolozana (born August 27, 1983 in Cape Town ) is a South African writer .

Life

Thando Mgqolozana grew up in the village of Engojini in the Eastern Cape Province . He attended the school there and passed his matric in 2001 . Then he studied until 2006 at the University of the Western Cape and obtained a Master Accounts in health and medical care ( Nursing ). He was supported by a grant from the Mandela Rhodes Foundation . During his studies he was politically involved in student representatives. He later worked for the South African research institute Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and, as part of his research there, was involved in 2009 as a co-author of a monograph on professional nursing in South Africa. Currently (as of 2019) he is a Research Development Officer at the University of Cape Town .

In 2009, Mgqolozana's debut novel A man who is not a man was published , which deals with the dangers of male circumcision as practiced ritualised by members of the Xhosa . The work attracted attention because it breaks with African traditions. It was put on the longlist for the International DUBLIN Literary Award . In 2011 Jacana Media published his second novel, Hear Me Alone , in which he presents an alternative to the traditional biblical story of the conception and birth of Jesus. His third novel Unimportance (2014) is about a man who wants to be elected President of the Students' Representative Council and makes a momentous commitment shortly before the election.

Mgqolozana was also involved in the script for the film drama Die Wunde (2017). He is co-founder of the annual Abantu Book Festival in Soweto .

In 2010 the Mail & Guardian newspaper included Thando Mgqolozana on its list of the 200 most important young South Africans in the arts and culture ( 200 Young South Africans: Arts and Culture ). In an article for The Guardian in 2012, the writer Zukiswa Wanner counted him as one of the five African authors whose works are worth reading alongside the well-known African works.

In 2015, Mgqolozana publicly announced several times that he would leave "the white literary industry".

Selected Works

  • A man who is not a man , University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, Scottsville 2009
  • Hear Me Alone , Jacana Media, Auckland Park 2011
  • Unimportance , Jacana Media, Auckland Park 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thando Mgqolozana | Scholars. In: The Mandela Rhodes Foundation. Retrieved October 1, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ a b c Percy Zvomuya: 200 Young South Africans: Arts and Culture. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
  3. ^ Behr, Coetzee, Heese, Mda, Mgqolozana, Pauw, Schierhout Make the € 100,000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist. In: Sunday Times Books LIVE @ Sunday Times Books LIVE. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Sundance 2017 Preview: South African Drama 'The Wound' Wants to Challenge Narrow Depictions of "African Masculinity". Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Zukiswa Wanner: Zukiswa Wanner's top five African writers . In: The Guardian . September 6, 2012, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed October 1, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Panashe Chigumadzi: Where South African literature is heading. afropolitan.co.za, July 4, 2016, accessed October 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Mgqolozana, Thando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town