Sindiwe Magona

Sindiwe Magona
Born August 27, 1943
South Africa
Nationality South African
Occupation Author, motivational speaker, teacher, translator

Sindiwe Magona (born 1943) is a South African writer.

Life

A native of the Transkei, she grew up in a township near Cape Town, where she worked as a domestic and completed her secondary education by correspondence. Magona later graduated from the University of South Africa and earned a Master of Science Degree in Organisational Social Work from Columbia University.[1] In 1993 she was awarded an Honourary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Hartwick College, Oneonta and in 1997 she was a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in the non-fiction category.

She retired from the United Nations in 2003 and currently lives in South Africa. and from Film Khumba voice by Gemsbok Healer. In 2007 she was awarded The Grinzane Award for writing that addresses social concerns, The Molteno Gold Medal for promoting the Xhosa culture and language, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution to South African Literature. In 2011 she was given the Order of iKhamanga; a Presidential Award and the highest such award in South Africa, and in 2012 she was joint winner with Nadine Gordimer of the Imbokodo Award.[2]

She is Writer-in-Residence at the University of the Western Cape and is currently working at Georgia State University.[3]

Literary career

She published her autobiography To My Children's Children in 1990. In 1998, she published Mother to Mother, a fictionalized account of the Amy Biehl killing,[4] which she adapted to a play. This was performed at the Baxter Theatre complex in late 2009 and the film rights to the novel were acquired by Type A Films in 2003.[5] She has also written autobiographies and short story collections. Her novel Beauty's Gift was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book, Africa Region.[6] In 2009, Please, Take Photographs, her first collection of poems, was published.

Works

References

  1. ↑ http://sindiwemagona.wix.com/website#!biography/component_9350
  2. ↑ http://sindiwemagona.wix.com/website#!biography/component_9350
  3. ↑ http://english.gsu.edu/research-creativity/scholarly-resources/sindiwe-magona/
  4. ↑ "Mother To Mother (review)". Blue Rectangle. Retrieved 2010-06-14.
  5. ↑ Harris, Dana (6 August 2003). "Universal Pictures acquires Sindiwe Magona's novel". Variety. Retrieved 24 November 2009.
  6. ↑ Commonwealth Foundation List of prize winners