Nthikeng Mohlele is a South African novelist whose novels include ''
Michael K'' (
Picador Africa, 2018), a rewriting of
J. M. Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African–Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in ...
's ''
Life & Times of Michael K
''Life & Times of Michael K'' is a 1983 novel by South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee. The novel won the Booker Prize for 1983. The novel is a story of a man named Michael K, who makes an arduous journey from Cape Town to his mother's rural bi ...
''. His other novels are: ''Scent of Bliss'' (
Kwela Books
Kwela Books is a South African publishing house founded in Cape Town in 1994 as a new imprint of NB Publishers.
1994-2004
In the first ten years it published several books.
Notable publications
* ''Kafka's Curse'' by Achmat Dangor
* ''Bitter ...
, 2008), ''Small Things'' (
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2013), ''Rusty Bells'' (
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014), ''Pleasure'' (
Picador
A ''picador'' (; pl. ''picadores'') is one of the pair of horse-mounted bullfighters in a Spanish-style bullfight that jab the bull with a lance. They perform in the ''tercio de varas'', which is the first of the three stages in a stylized bullf ...
Africa, 2016),
and ''Illumination''
(Picador Africa, 2019).
Awards
* 2017
K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award
The South African Literary Awards (SALA) have been awarded annually since 2005 to exceptional South African writers. They "pay tribute to South African writers who have distinguished themselves as ground-breaking producers and creators of litera ...
for ''Pleasure''
References
21st-century South African novelists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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