Zakes Mda

Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni "Zakes" Mda  ( bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni  1948) ka o nyɛ ŋun nyɛ  South Africa  sasabira ŋun sabiri, salinwaɣila, yɛltɔɣa taɣimalisi,  ni kpɛrigu. O nyɛla ŋun na min di major South African mini  British literary kpaŋmaŋ pini din jendi o salinwaɣila sabbu polo. . O ba n nyɛ siyaasa niri yuli booni A. P. Mda.

O pilli bɛhigu mini o shikuru chandi
Zanemvula Mda nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so tiŋyuli booni Herschel, n be South Africa, yuuni  1948. Ka nyɛ ŋun naagi shikuru yuli booni  Cambridge Overseas Certificate at Peka High School, din be  Lesotho tingban ni la, yuuni  1969. O nyɛla ŋun deegi shɛhira gbaŋ yuli booni  BFA ( din jendi bɔhimbu yaɣa din nyɛ Visual Arts mini Literature ni ) shikuru din booni International Academy of Arts and Literature, ka be Zurich, n be  Switzerland tingbani la puuni , yuuni 1976. O lahi nyɛla ŋun naagi  MFA (Theater) mini  MA (Mass Communication n-ti pahi  Media) yuuni  1984 ni, shikuru yuli booni  Ohio University, din be United States tingbani la. O nyɛla ŋun lan deegi o shɛhira gbaŋ yuli booni  PhD la shikuru yuli booni  University of Cape Town, din be South Africa tingbani la , yuuni 1989.

Career

Literary works

O kpaŋmaŋ pina nima
+Awards for Mda's writingYearWorkAwardRessult1978We Shall Sing for the FatherlandAmstel Playwright of the Year AwardSpecial Merit Award1979The HillAmstel Playwright of the Year AwardWinner1997Ways of DyingM-Net Book PrizeWinner2001The Heart of RednessCommonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book: AfricaWinner2001The Heart of RednessHurston-Wright Legacy AwardWinner2001The Heart of RednessSunday Times Fiction PrizeWinner2017Little SunsBarry Ronge Fiction PrizeWinner

 Publications 
 ( yuuni 1977) New South African Writing
 ( yuuni 1979) We Shall Sing for the Fatherland
 ( yuuni 1979) Dead End
 ( yuuni 1979) Dark Voices Ring
 (Yuuni 1980) The Hill
 (Yuuni 1982) Banned: A Play for Radio
 (Yuuni 1982) Summer Fires
 (Yuuni 1986) Bits of Debris: The Poetry of Zakes Mda
 (Yuuni 1988) And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses
 (Yuuni 1989) Joys of War
 (Yuuni 1990) The Plays of Zakes Mda
 (Yuuni 1991) The Nun's Romantic Story
 (Yuuni 1992) Soho Square
 (Yuuni 1993) When People Play People
 (Yuuni 1993) And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses: Four Works
 (Yuuni 1995) Ways of Dying
 (Yuuni 1995) She Plays with the Darkness
 (Yuuni 1998) Melville 67
 (Yuuni 2000) The Heart of Redness
 (Yuuni 2002) The Madonna of Excelsior
 (Yuuni 2002) Fools, Bells and the Importance of Eating: Three Satires
 (Yuuni 2005) The Whale Caller
 (Yuuni 2007) Cion
 (Yuuni 2009) Black Diamond
 (Yuuni 2011) Sometimes There is a Void: Memoirs of an Outsider
 (Yuuni 2012) Our Lady of Benoni
 (Yuuni 2013) The Sculptors of Mapungubwe
 (Yuuni 2014) Rachel's Blue
 (Yuuni 2015) Little Suns
 (Yuuni 2019) The Zulus of New York
 (Yuuni 2021) Wayfarers' Hymns

 Maan lihimi ŋo nim yaha 
 The Annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture
 Flaxman Qoopane

Kundivihira

Category:1948 births
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Category:20th-century dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century South African male writers
Category:20th-century South African novelists
Category:20th-century South African poets
Category:21st-century dramatists and playwrights
Category:21st-century South African male writers
Category:21st-century South African novelists
Category:21st-century South African poets
Category:South African male dramatists and playwrights
Category:Ohio University faculty
Category:South African atheists
Category:South African dramatists and playwrights
Category:South African male novelists
Category:South African male poets
Category:Writers from the Eastern Cape
Category:Recipients of the Order of Ikhamanga