Zakes Mda is a writer, painter, composer, and film producer. His novels, among them The Madonna of Excelsior and Ways of Dying, have won a number of awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Africa Region and the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award.
He divides his time between South Africa and the United Sates, working as a professor of creative writing at Ohio University, a beekeeper in the Eastern Cape, a dramaturge at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, and a director of the Southern African Multimedia AIDS Trust in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. |
