South Africa: Sindiwe Magona’s New Book of Essays Tackles Issues South Africans Aren’t Talking About

13th July 2023
[The Conversation Africa] Sindiwe Magona - who turns 80 this year - is a celebrated South African writer, storyteller, speaker and activist. In 2022 Magona, once a domestic worker, received her PhD in creative writing. Best known for her novels, autobiographies, short stories, poems and children's books, she's also a writer of essays. Now a new collection, I Write the Yawning Void, has been published. The essays in the book mostly deal with becoming and being a writer in a country like South Africa with a violent past that lives on

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