Thando Mgqolozana (born 27 August 1983, in Cape Town, South Africa) is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, a recipient of the Golden Key International Honour for Scholastic Achievement, and one of the Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans of 2010.[1] He has previously worked as a researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council and is now based at the University of Cape Town.
Mgqolozana[2] is the author of Hear Me Alone (2011), A Man Who Is Not a Man (2009), a novel that enjoyed critical success and was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award,[3] and Unimportance (2014).
Mgqolozana is the co-writer of Inxeba (The Wound) (2017), an award-winning film, inspired by his novel, A Man Who Is Not A Man, about the Xhosa traditional initiation into manhood.[4]
In 2021, his ex-wife accused him of intimate partner abuse.[5]
References edit
- ^ "200 Young South Africans: Arts and Culture", Mail & Guardian, 14 June 2010.
- ^ "Thando Mgqolozana". Pontas Agency. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- ^ "Behr, Coetzee, Heese, Mda, Mgqolozana, Pauw, Schierhout Make the €100 000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist", Books Live, 15 November 2010.
- ^ "Inxeba | The Wound". Inxeba. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- ^ "[The JRB Daily] Thando Mgqolozana, founder of Abantu Book Festival, accused of intimate partner abuse". The Johannesburg Review of Books. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2023.