Lewis Nkosi

Lewis Nkosi
Nkosi at the Centre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Languages, University of Durban-Westville, 2001
Born(1936-12-05)5 December 1936
Died5 September 2010(2010-09-05) (aged 73)
Johannesburg, South Africa
NationalitySouth African
Occupation(s)Novelist, journalist, essayist, poet
Notable workMating Birds (1986); Mandela's Ego (2006)

Lewis Nkosi (5 December 1936 – 5 September 2010) was a South African writer and journalist, who spent 30 years in exile as a consequence of restrictions placed on him and his writing by the Suppression of Communism Act and the Publications and Entertainment Act passed in the 1950s and 1960s. A multifaceted personality, he attempted multiple genre for his writing, including literary criticism, poetry, drama, novels, short stories, essays, as well as journalism.


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