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Mgqolozana is the co-writer of [[The Wound (2017 film)|''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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Inxeba {{!}} The Wound|url=http://www.inxeba.com/|access-date=2021-03-10|website=Inxeba|language=en-US}}</ref> |
Mgqolozana is the co-writer of [[The Wound (2017 film)|''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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Inxeba {{!}} The Wound|url=http://www.inxeba.com/|access-date=2021-03-10|website=Inxeba|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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In 2021, his ex-wife accused him of intimate partner abuse.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-26 |title=[The JRB Daily] Thando Mgqolozana, founder of Abantu Book Festival, accused of intimate partner abuse |url=https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2021/08/26/the-jrb-daily-thando-mgqolozana-founder-of-abantu-book-festival-accused-of-intimate-partner-abuse/ |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=The Johannesburg Review of Books |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 06:25, 20 September 2023
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
- ^ "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.
External links
- Thando Mgqolozana on Books LIVE
- http://www.cca.ukzn.ac.za/index.php/tow-past-participants/79-tow-2015/931-thando-mgqolozana-sou
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