South African novelist, poet and playwright (born 1948)
Zakes Mda
Born
Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda 1948 (age 75–76) Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Occupation
Novelist, poet and playwright
Alma mater
Ohio University University of Cape Town
Notable works
Ways of Dying (1995), The Heart of Redness (2000)
Notable awards
Commonwealth Writers' Prize Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2001
Parents
A. P. Mda (father)
Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni "Zakes" Mda (/ˈzɛɪksmˈdɑː/) (born 1948) is a South African novelist, poet and playwright. He has won major South African and British literary awards for his novels and plays. He is the son of politician A. P. Mda.
Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni "Zakes" Mda (/ˈzɛɪks mˈdɑː/) (born 1948) is a South African novelist, poet and playwright. He has won major South African and...
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Ways of Dying is a 1995 novel by South African novelist and playwright ZakesMda. The text follows the wanderings and creative endeavors of Toloki, a self-employed...
1901. Forster, E. M. Howards End. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910. Zakes., Mda (2002). Ways of dying : a novel (1st Picador USA ed.). New York: Picador...
black South Africans under apartheid. Another famous black novelist, ZakesMda, transitioned from poetry and plays to becoming a novelist in the same...
2000, p. 36. "Awards Recipients". OPC. Jennifer Malec (25 June 2017). "ZakesMda and Greg Marinovich win Sunday Times Literary Awards". JRB. Retrieved...
same name is based on this book. James A. Michener, The Covenant (1980) ZakesMda, The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) ISBN 0312423829 Robin Binckes, Canvas...
Dalene Matthee (South Africa): Kringe in 'n bos (Circles in a Forest) ZakesMda (South Africa): Ways of Dying (1995), The Heart of Redness Thomas Mofolo...
Breytenbach (born 1939), Sindiwe Magona (born 1943), Zoë Wicomb (born 1948), ZakesMda (born 1948), Antjie Krog (born 1952), Ivan Vladislavic (born 1957), Gcina...
Olojede, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Margaret Busby, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, and ZakesMda), created in 2013 as a platform for African writers of debut novels of...
intellectual. The first speaker was Njabulo Ndebele; later speakers included ZakesMda, Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and Mandela. Buildings, institutes...
James McClure (1939–2006) Michelle McGrane (born 1974), born in Zimbabwe ZakesMda (born 1948) Joan Metelerkamp (born 1956) Deon Meyer (born 1958) Thando...
The Whale Caller is a fifth novel written by South African writer ZakesMda, who is currently a professor at Ohio University, It is a novel about a man...
journalist for both South African and United States broadcasters (born 1949) ZakesMda, journalist (born 1948) Nathaniel Ndazana Nakasa, South African journalist...
Nongqawuse").[citation needed] Bulhoek Massacre Nontetha, Xhosa prophetess ZakesMda's novel The Heart of Redness Ghost Dance, a millennialist movement that...
Performing arts Rashid Lombard Silver 2014 Music (jazz administration) ZakesMda Silver 2014 Literature Lucas Sithole Silver 2014 Tennis Cameron van der...
sounds his kelp horn to announce where whales have been sighted. In 2005, ZakesMda wrote the novel The Whale Caller in which the Whale Crier of Hermanus...
People (2002) and Mandela's Ego (2006). Another famous black novelist, ZakesMda, transitioned from poetry and plays to becoming a novelist. His novel...
is governed by its advisory board, currently (as of 2017) composed of ZakesMda, Susan Nalugwa Kiguli, Ayeta Anne Wangusa, Helon Habila, Leila Aboulela...
JSTOR 20109631. S2CID 161885101. "ZakesMda in Plagiarism Row". Sunday Times Books. 21 July 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2023. Mda, Zakes (23 October 2008). "A charge...
"honeymoon literature" or "the literature of celebration", epitomised by ZakesMda, who was active as a playwright and poet long before publishing his first...
Xhosa clan names Nguni people The Heart of Redness (2000), novelist ZakesMda Holt, B. “The Tshezi of the Transkei: An Ethnographic Study”, 1969. Palmer...
Pacific Richard Flanagan Gould's Book of Fish Australia Picador 2001 Africa ZakesMda The Heart of Redness South Africa Oxford University Press Canada and the...
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