Lidudumalingani Mqombothi is a South African writer, film-maker and photographer. His short story "Memories We Lost" won the 2016
Caine Prize for African Writing.
Biography
Lidudumalingani Mqombothi was born in the village of
Zikhovane in the
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is one of the provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are East London and Gqeberha.
The second largest province in the country (at 168,966 km2) after Northern Cape, it was formed in ...
, South Africa. He was the 2016 winner of the
Caine Prize for African Writing with his short story "Memories We Lost".
As part of winning the prize, he visited
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...
in
Washington, DC
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, for a series of events, including seminars and readings. Also in 2016, Lidudumalingani was selected to receive a
Miles Morland Scholarship
The Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship, also called the Morland Writing Scholarships or the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship is an annual financial scholarship awarded to four to six African writers to enable them write a fiction or no ...
, enabling him to work on his first novel, ''Let Your Children Name Themselves''.
Lidudumalingani was chosen as curator for the 2022 African Book Festival Berlin (26–18 August), with the theme of his programme being titled "Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow."
Awards and honours
*2016:
Caine Prize
The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award for the best original short story by an African writer, whether in Africa or elsewhere, published in the English language. The £10,000 prize was founded in the United Kingdom in 20 ...
winner for "Memories We Lost"
*2016
Miles Morland Scholarship
Selected writings
* "Goodbye John Shoes Moshoeu", ''Africa Is A Country'', 22 April 2015.
* "The Art of Suspense", ''The Chimurenga Chronic'', 7 April 2016.
* "The Seduction of Johannesburg", caineprize.com, 14 November 2016.
* "The Portfolio", ''Mail & Guardian'', 29 November 2019.
* "Notes on migration, the city and home", ''Johannesburg Review of Books'', 5 December 2019.
* "Writers do not write alone. They are always in the company of other writers", ''Johannesburg Review of Books'', 3 July 2020.
* "A city caught between two moments", ''Johannesburg Review of Books'', 27 August 2020.
References
External links
Official website"African Storytelling, Minority and Inclusive Narratives: A Dialogue with Lidudumalingani Mqombothi" ''Africa in Dialogue'', 7 October 2016.
* Siphiwe Mpye
"The Collector , Lidudumalingani Mqombothi"(interview), ''Noted Man'', 31 March 2017.
* Khanya Mtshali
"Bookforum talks with Lidudumalingani Mqombothi" ''Bookforum'', 15 September 2016.
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21st-century South African writers
Caine Prize winners
Living people
Writers from the Eastern Cape
South African male short story writers
South African photographers
South African short story writers
Year of birth missing (living people)