Закес Мда — об авторе
- Родился: 1 января 1948 г. , Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Биография — Закес Мда
Zanemvula Mda was born in Herschel, South Africa, in 1948. and completed the Cambridge Overseas Certificate at Peka High School, Lesotho in 1969. He pursued his BFA (Visual Arts and Literature) at the International Academy of Arts and Literature, Zurich, Switzerland in 1976. He completed a MFA (Theater) and a MA (Mass Communication and Media) in 1984 at Ohio University, United States. He completed his PhD at the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1989.
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Интересные факты
Novelist, playwright, painter, music composer. South African, resident in the USA. Creative writing professor at Ohio University. Seven novels of literary fiction set in South Africa (have won all the major literary awards in South Africa, and also the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award, and the American Library Association Notable Books in the USA) and one set in the USA (shortlisted for the NAACP Image Award). Most recent book: Our Lady of Benoni, a play published by Wits University Press, Johannesburg, with Introduction by Sarah Roberts. Sometimes There is a Void: Memoirs of an Outsider, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Forthcoming from Seagull Books, India, and…
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2017 г. — Литературная премия газеты «Sunday Times» (Лучшее художественное произведение (Премия Барри Ронга), Little Suns)2003 г. — Премия Херстон / Райта «Наследие» (Проза, The Heart of Redness)
2001 г. — Литературная премия газеты «Sunday Times» (Лучшее художественное произведение (Премия Барри Ронга), The Heart of Redness)
