MOELE, Kgebetli

MOELE, Kgebetli
  • Africa
  • Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • South Africa
  • Africa
  • Southern Africa
English

Kgebetli MOELE (novelist, fiction writer; South Africa) has been a theatre producer and creative writing teacher. His short stories have appeared in the anthology Sun Tropes: Sun City and (post-)Apartheid Culture in South Africa and in the Italian magazine Internazionale. His Room 207 won the 2007 Herman Charles Bosman Debut Novel Award and the University of Johannesburg Debut Novel Award. He received the 2010 South African Literary Award for his second novel, The Book of the Dead. He is currently at work on three novels, including Nature of Life and Behind the Great Man. He participates courtesy of the U.S. Embassy in Cape Town.

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