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The Heart of Redness
Zakes Mda · 2001 · 328 pages
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Zakes Mda is a well-known, award-winning South African author. His new novel depicts a rural village on the eastern Cape coast which faces a plan to build a holiday resort, and the centuries-old feud the plan re-ignites. Moving between the worlds of contemporary characters and their
nineteenth-century ancestors, this novel is a triumph of imaginative and historical writing, showing how the past continues to live in the present.
About the Author
Zakes Mda is a full-time writer, painter and film-maker. His numerous awards include the Olive Schreiner prize, the M-Net Book award, and the Noma Honourable Mention for
Ways of Dying (OUPSA); the Thomas Pringle award for journalism; the Olive Schreiner prize for his drama,
The Nun's Romanitc Story;
the Sanlam award for his novel,
She Plays with Darkness; and the Christina Crawford award (of the American Theater Association) for
The Road. His academic achievements include a Fullbright-Hayes Fellowship, an MA from Ohio University and a PhD from the Universtiy of Cape Town. He has worked as a
professor of drama and literature at universities in South Africa, Lesotho and the USA, and played a leading role in running numerous community drama projects. He is on the board of trustees of the President's Ars and Culture Trust.
Zakes Mda is a well-known, award-winning South African author. His new novel depicts a rural village on the eastern Cape coast which faces a plan to build a holiday resort, and the centuries-old feud the plan re-ignites. Moving between the worlds of contemporary characters and their
nineteenth-century ancestors, this novel is a triumph of imaginative and historical writing, showing how the past continues to live in the present.
About the Author
Zakes Mda is a full-time writer, painter and film-maker. His numerous awards include the Olive Schreiner prize, the M-Net Book award, and the Noma Honourable Mention for
Ways of Dying (OUPSA); the Thomas Pringle award for journalism; the Olive Schreiner prize for his drama,
The Nun's Romanitc Story;
the Sanlam award for his novel,
She Plays with Darkness; and the Christina Crawford award (of the American Theater Association) for
The Road. His academic achievements include a Fullbright-Hayes Fellowship, an MA from Ohio University and a PhD from the Universtiy of Cape Town. He has worked as a
professor of drama and literature at universities in South Africa, Lesotho and the USA, and played a leading role in running numerous community drama projects. He is on the board of trustees of the President's Ars and Culture Trust.
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