Miriam Tlali

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Miriam Tlali (born 1933, Johannesburg) is a South African novelist. She was the first black woman in South Africa to publish a novel. She was also one of the first to write about Soweto.

Tlali wrote Muriel at Metropolitan (1979, originally Between Two Worlds), a semiautobiographical work. She later wrote other books such as Amandla (1980), Mihloti (1984), and Footprints in the Quag (1989).^[1]

[edit] Further reading

• Bernth Linfors and Reinhard Sander, Twentieth century Caribbean and Black African writers. 1996. Published by Detroit: Gale Research.
• Derek Attridge and Rosemary Jane Jolly, Writing South Africa: Literature, apartheid and democracy 1970 - 1995. 1998. Published by Cambridge (UK) and Cambridge University Press (New York).
• Christina Cullhed, Grappling with Patriarchies: Narrative Strategies of Resistance in Miriam Tlali's Writings. Doctoral dissertation. 2006. Published by Uppsala University.

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