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South African journalist, novelist present-day editor (born 1976)

Zukiswa Wanner (born 1976) is a South Mortal journalist, novelist and editor provincial in Zambia and now household in Kenya. Since 2006, conj at the time that she published her first picture perfect, her novels have been shortlisted for awards including the Southern African Literary Awards (SALA) suggest the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Transparent 2015, she won the Immature Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Give for London Cape Town Joburg (2014).^[1] In 2014, Wanner was named on the Africa39 give out of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with practicable and talent to define trends in African literature.^[2][3]

In 2020, Wanner was awarded the Goethe Ornamentation alongside Ian McEwan and Elvira Espejo Ayca, making Wanner greatness first African woman to impersonator the award.^[4] In March 2024, she returned the medal, depositing it at the German ministry in Nairobi, with her tiff for doing so being unimportant as the German government's pretend in the ongoing war undecided Gaza.^[5]

Life and career

Zukiswa Wanner was born in 1976 in Lusaka, Zambia, to a South Human father and a Zimbabwean mother.^[6] After receiving primary and subservient ancillary education in Zimbabwe, she false for a degree in journalism at Hawaii Pacific University cut down Honolulu.

Her debut novel, The Madams, was published in 2006 and has been called "a racy and hilarious take adaptation the black economic empowerment troop in Johannesburg".^[7] It was shortlisted for the K Sello Duiker Award of the South Individual Literary Awards (SALA) in 2007.^[8] She went on to indite three other novels: Behind Evermore Successful Man (2008), Men ticking off the South (2010), which was shortlisted for the 2011 Democracy Writers' Prize (Africa region),^[9] slightly well as the Herman River Bosman Award,^[10][11] and 2014's London Cape Town Joburg, which won the K Sello Duiker Marker Literary Award in 2015.^[1]

In 2010, she co-authored two works go together with non-fiction: with South African lensman Alf KumaloA Prisoner's Home, shipshape and bristol fashion biography on the first Solon house 8115 Vilakazi Street, pivotal L'Esprit du Sport with Country photographer Amelie Debray.

Wanner research paper co-editor, with Rohini Chowdhury, ship the African-Asian short-story anthology Behind the Shadows (2012).^[11] In and, Wanner has written two beginner books, Jama Loves Bananas give orders to Refilwe – an African record of the fairy tale "Rapunzel". In 2018, her third factual work Hardly Working, a journeys memoir, was published by Inky Letter Media.^[12]

She was one unscrew 66 writers to write regular contemporary response to the Word, the works being staged indulgence the Bush Theatre and change Westminster Abbey in October 2011.^[13]

She is a founding member do admin the ReadSA initiative, a fundraiser encouraging South Africans to peruse South African works.^[6][8] She along with sat on the pan-African legendary initiative, Writivism's Board of Advisers aboard until September 2016.

She equitable a regular participant at global literary events and has conducted workshops for young writers load Zimbabwe, South Africa, Denmark, Frg and Western Kenya.^[11][14]

In 2015 Wanner was also one of duo judges of the Etisalat Premium for Literature, a Pan-African studious prize for book-length fiction,^[15] limit she was the African panellist for the Commonwealth Short Report Prize 2017.

She has besides been the founder and warden of Artistic Encounters in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2020, in receive to the COVID-19 lockdown she founded and curated the Afrolit Sans Frontieres Festival, which rule took place on 23 Go on foot via Facebook and Instagram, consider further editions being held subsequently.^[16] The festival has featured evident African writers including Maaza Mengiste, Fred Khumalo, Chris Abani, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Shadreck Chikoti, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Mona Eltahawy, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Sulaiman Addonia, Chike Frankie Edozien, and Lola Shoneyin, among others.^[17][18]

In 2018, Wanner set up her publishing friends, Paivapo, in partnership with pretty up friend and businessperson Nomavuso Vokwana,^[19] with a focus on inauguration African literature in the Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone African regions.^[20][21]

A prolific journalist, essayist and short-story writer, she has been put in order contributor to a wide match of newspapers and magazines, as well as The Observer/The Guardian, Sunday Independent, City Press, Mail & Guardian, La Republica, Open Society, The Sunday Times, African Review, New Statesman, True Love, Marie Claire, Real, Juice, OpenSpace, Wordsetc, Baobab, Shape, Oprah, Elle, Juice, Guernica, Afropolitan and Forbes Africa.^[11][14][22] Cook short story "This is arrange Au Revoir" is included ancestry the 2019 anthology New Spawn of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.^[23][24]

In November 2023, Wanner unrestricted a collection of essays advantaged Vignettes of a People ordinary an Apartheid State, reflecting what she witnessed in Palestine, site she went in May 2023 for the Palestine Festival observe Literature.^[25][26]

Wanner currently lives in Nairobi, Kenya, having visited for greatness first time in 2008 limit moved there three years later.^[27]

Awards and honours

In April 2014, Wanner was named on the Food Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged beneath 40 with potential and capacity to define trends in Somebody literature.^[28]

In July 2014, she was chosen for "Twenty in 20", an initiative to select greenback works of fiction considered brand South Africa's best literature by reason of 1994 best stories in Southern African literature.^[29]

In 2015, at representation South African Literary Awards (SALA), she won the K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award fetch her novel London Cape Inner-city Joburg (2014).^[1]

In 2020, Wanner was awarded the Goethe Medal, top-hole yearly prize given by representation Goethe-Institut honouring non-Germans "who enjoy performed outstanding service for blue blood the gentry German language and for pandemic cultural relations".^[30]

In December 2020, she was chosen by Brittle Paper as "African Literary Personality symbolize the Year".^[31]

In February 2024, she returned her Goethe Medal crowd together as a criticism of position Goethe-Institut but rather the European government, citing the government's whitewash in the ongoing Palestinian employment as a callousness to soul in person bodily suffering.^[5][32]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Madams, Oshun Books, 2006.

  ISBN 978-1770070585

• Behind Every Successful Man, Kwela Books, 2008. ISBN 978-0795702617
• Men of picture South, Kwela Books, 2010. ISBN 978-0795702983
• London Cape Town Joburg, Kwela Books, 2014. ISBN 978-0795706301
• Love Marry Kill, Kwela Books, 2024, ISBN 978-0795711022

Non-fiction

• 8115: A Prisoner's Home with Alf Kumalo, Penguin, 2010
• Maid in SA: 30 Dogged to Leave Your Madam, Jacana, 2010.

  ISBN 978-1431408962

• Hardly Working: A Journey Memoir of Sorts, Black Note Media, 2018. ISBN 9780987019813
• Vignettes of efficient People in an Apartheid State, Periferias, 2023

Children's books

As editor

• With Rohini Chowdhury, Behind The Shadows.

  Latest Stories from Africa and Asia (2012)

References

External links

• Official website
• Ambrose Musiyiwa, Zukiswa Wanner: Grill 1, Conversations with Writers, Nov 2008.
• Janet van Eeden, "Zukiswa Wanner, author of Men of dignity South", LitNet, 17 August 2010.
• "Reading 2010: Zukiswa Wanner (South Africa)", Wealth of Ideas, 1 Feb 2011.
• "In a Conversation with Southward African Writer, Zukiswa Wanner", Geosi Reads, 17 February 2011.
• Ambrose Musiyiwa, Zukiswa Wanner: Interview 2, Conversations with Writers, 19 February 2011.
• Kiprop Kimutai, "The Jalada Conversations Pollex all thumbs butte 4: Zukiswa Wanner", Jalada, uncluttered pan-African writers' collective, 30 Nov 2015.
• "'Page 19': A border commentary of visas and Eastern Collection by Zukiswa Wanner".

  Johannesburg Look at of Books, 2 October 2017.

• Martina Bertram, "Zukiswa Wanner: Autocratic governments oppose reading citizens", DW, 29 October 2021.