Sifiso Mzobe is a South African author.
Biography
Mzobe was born and raised in the
Durban
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township
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of
Umlazi
Umlazi is a township in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, located south-west of Durban. Organisationally and administratively it forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality and its South Municipal Planning Region.
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. He attended St Francis College in
Mariannhill
Mariannhill is a cluster of suburbs and townships in eThekwini Municipality in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
In 1882, Trappist missionary Father Franz Pfanner established Mariannhill Monastery 16 km west of Durban. He promoted local develop ...
, then studied Journalism at Damelin Business Campus in Durban. He has worked for community newspapers and as a freelance journalist.
His debut novel ''Young Blood'' (2010) won a number of awards, including the 2012
Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, and was also listed in the ''
Sunday Independent''′s Top Ten Books of 2010.
Awards and honours
*2011
Herman Charles Bosman Prize
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, ''Young Blood''
*2011
The Sunday Times Fiction Prize
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, ''Young Blood''
*2011 South African Literary Award for a First-Time Published Author
*2012
Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, ''Young Blood''
Bibliography
* ''Young Blood'', Kwela Books, 2010
* ''Durban december'', Kwela Books, 2015
* ''Searching for Simphiwe: And Other Stories'', Kwela Books, 2020
References
Living people
South African male novelists
21st-century South African novelists
21st-century South African male writers
Writers from Durban
Year of birth missing (living people)
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