Zakes Mda

Zakes Mda o leina la gagwe la molao e leng Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda, o tshotswe ka ngwaga wa 1948. Ke mokwadi wa dibuka, poko le metshameko wa kwa Aforika Borwa. Ke ngwana wa ga A.P Mda wa mopolotiki. Dibuka tsa gagwe le metshameko di fentse dietsele tse dikgolo kwa Aforika Borwa le kwa Britain.

 Botshelo jwa fa a gola  le thuto 
Zanemvula Mda o tsholetswe kwa Herschel kwa Aforika Borwa ka ngwaga wa1948,"Zakes Mda" (PDF). ou.edu. Retrieved 21 February 2020. a fetsa dithuto tsa Cambridge Overseas Certificate kwa Peka High School kwa Lesotho ka ngwaga wa 1969. O ne a tswelela a ya go ithutela BFA (botaki le padi) kwa International Academy of Arts and Literature kwa Zurich, kwa Switzerland ka ngwaga wa 1976. O feditse dithuto tsa MFA (bodiragatsi) le MA(puisano le bobegadikgang) ka ngwaga wa 1984 kwa Ohio University kwa United States. O feditse dithuto tsa gagwe tsa PhD kwa University of Cape Town kwa South Africa ka ngwaga wa 1989.

 Tiro 
Fa a simolola go gatisa dibuka, o ne a dirisa leina la bokwadi la Zakes Mda. Fa godimo ga go kwala dibuka le metshameko, o rutile puo ya sekgoa le bokwadi jwa boitlhamedi kwa Aforika Borwa le kwa United Kingdom.

O ne a ya kwa United States bosheng jaana, kwa a neng a nna morutuntshi mo lephateng la sekgoa kwa Ohio University kwa Athens, Ohio."English Department". www.english.ohiou.edu. Retrieved 27 September 2018. O ntse e le morutuntshi o o etang kwa Yale University le kwa University of Vermont."Madonna of Excelsior" at Barnes & Noble. O nnile morutuntshi gape kwa Johns Hopkins University."Zakes Mda". Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 26 July 2021.

Mda ke leloko ebile o mo lekgotleng la bogakolodi la lekgotla la African Writers Trust,"Advisory Board", African Writers Trust. Retrieved 24 August 2011. le e leng lekgotla le le sa direng dipoelo le le itebagantseng le go amanya le go tsisa mmogo bakwadi ba ma Aforika mo lefatsheng ka bophara go kgona go abelana ditlamelo le botswerere, le go rutana mo ditlhopeng tsotlhe ka bobedi."What is African Writers Trust?" African Writers Trust. Retrieved 24 August 2011.Lamwaka, Beatrice, "Goretti Kyomuhendo of African Writers Trust" , 22 May 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2011.

Ka ngwaga wa 2013, ene le Ama Ata Aidoo, Dele Olojede, Ellah Allfrey, Margaret Busby le Kole Omotoso ba ne ba nna batshegetsi ba seetsele sa Etisalat Prize for Literature.Terh Agbedeh (26 June 2013). "Sustainability of literary prizes, as new one debuts". National Mirror. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2023"2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature Longlist Revealed". African Literary Magazines. The Single Story Foundation. 12 November 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2023.

 Dibuka tse a di kwadileng 
Buka ya ntlha ya ga Mda e e bidiwang Ways of Dying ee gatisitsweng ka ngwaga wa 1995, ditiragalo tsa yone ke ka dingwaga tsa lefatshe la Aforika Borwa le fetoga go nna lefatshe la batho ka batho. E setse morago moanelwamogolo Toloki. Morago ga gore a iphitlhele a humanegile, o simolola tiro ya go nna mohutsahadi. O tsaya loeto mo toropong ya Aforika Borwa e e sa bolelwang ka leina, a bo a kopana le mokapelo wa gagwe wa pele kwa mengweng ya metsana e a neng a e tsamaya.

The Heart of Redness e e gatisitsweng ka ngwaga wa 2000, ke buka ya ga Mda ya boraro, e e tlhotlheleditsweng ke ditso tsa ga Nongqawuse, moporofiti wa mosadi wa moXhosa, o diporofito tsa gagwe di rotloeditseng polao ya dikgomo ka 1856 go tsena 1857. Ngwao ya seXhosa e ne ya kgaogana ka badumedi le ba ba sa dumeleng, se se oketsa itsholelo e e kwa tlase le leuba. Go dumelwa gore batho ba ka nna dikete di le masome a mabedi ba ne ba tlhokafala ka ntlha ya tlala ka no eo. Mo bukeng e, Mda o ama nako ya gompieno le ya nako ya ga Nongqawuse go supa neelano ya ditso le mainane. 

 Dibuka tse a di gatisitseng 

 1977 New South African Writing
 1979 We Shall Sing for the Fatherland
 1979 Dead End
 1979 Dark Voice Ring
 1980 The Hill
 1982 Banned: A play for Radio
 1982 Summer Fires
 1995 Ways of Dying
 1995 She Plays with the darkness
 1998 Melville 67
 2000 The Heart of Redness
 2002 Fools, Bells and The Importance of Eating:Three Satires
 2005 The Whale Caller
 2007 Cion
 2009 Black Diamond
 2011 Sometimes There is a void: Memoirs of an outsider
 2012 Our Lady of Benoni
 2013 The Sculptors of Mapungubwe
 2014 Rachel's Blue
 2015 Little Suns
 2019 The Zulus of New York
 2021 Wayfarers'Hymns

 Dietsele 

 1978: Amstel Playwright of the Year award
 1979: Amstel Playwright of the year Award, mofenyi ka buka ya The Hill kwa Botswana
 1997: M-Net Book Prize, Ways of Dying, kwa Botswana
 2001: Commonwealth Writers'Prize: Africa, The Heart of Redness kwa Botswana
 2001: Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, The Heart of Redness
 2001: Sunday Times Fiction Prize, The Heart of Redness
 2004: Top 10 South African Books published in teh decade of Democracy, The Madonna of Excelsior kwa Botswana
 2017: Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, Little Suns

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