ZAKES MDA - ESCRITOR SUL-AFRICANO

Zakes Mda, o nome porque é conhecido escritor Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda, nasceu em 1948. Zakes é um autor cuja obra vai do romance ao teatro, passando pelo poesia.

Foi vencedor dos maiores prémios literários sul-africanos.

Obras publicadas: New South African Writing (1977); We Shall Sing for the Fatherland (1979); Dead End (1979); Dark Voices Ring (1979); The Hill (1980); Banned: A Play for Radio (1982); Summer Fires (1982); Bits of Debris: The Poetry of Zakes Mda (1986);
And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses (1988); Joys of War (1989); The Plays of Zakes Mda (1990); The Nun's Romantic Story (1991); Soho Square (1992); When People Play People: Development communication through theatre (1993); And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses: Four Works (1993); Ways of Dying (1995); She Plays with the Darkness (1995); Melville 67 (1998); The Heart of Redness (2000); The Madonna of Excelsior (2002); Fools, Bells and the habit of eating: Three Satires (2002); The Whale Caller (2005); Cion (2007); Black Diamond (2009); Sometimes there is a Void: Memoirs of an Outsider (2011); The Sculptors of Mapungubwe (Kwela Books, 2013).

Fontes: Jozi Book Fair; Zanemvula Kizito Mda, SAHO.