Angela Makholwa
Angela Makholwa is a South African author, the first black writer to write crime fiction in South Africa.[citation needed]
Life
Born in Johannesburg,[1] Makholwa graduated in journalism from Rhodes University. She worked as a magazine journalist and public relations consultant for several agencies before establishing her own public relations firm, Britespark Communications, in 2002.[2] She came to the literary scene in 2007 with Red Ink, the first crime fiction by a black author in South Africa. In Red Ink the fictional detective, Lucy — a successful public relations writer — is drawn into investigating a horrifying series of rapes and murders:
It has suspense, violence, murder. Best of all it carries no old South African baggage: this is the indifferent world of new bling South Africa.[3]
Makholwa followed this up two years later with a chick-lit novel, The 30th Candle (2009). Her third novel was Black Widow Society (2013) and her latest novel The Blessed Girl was released in October 2017.
Works
- Red Ink, Pan Macmillan, 2007
- The 30th Candle, Pan Macmillan, 2009
- Black Widow Society, Pan Macmillan, 2013
- The Blessed Girl, Pan Macmillan, 2017
References
- ^ "South Africa the focus at London Book Fair", British Council, 8 April 2010, via Artslink.co.za.
- ^ CISA Literary Festival Archived September 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mike Nicol, reviewing the novel in Crime Beat. Quoted in Charles J. Rzepka & Lee Horsley, eds, A Companion to Crime Fiction, p. 288.
External links
- Talking authors: Angela Makholwa, Mail & Guardian, 25 November 2009
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