Zukiswa Wanner

Writer

Zukiswa Wanner is the author of novels The Madams (2006), Behind Every Successful Man (2008), Men of the South (2010) and London Cape Town Joburg (2014); four children’s books; a travel book; a satirical nonfiction work and a long form essay on Palestine:  Vignettes of a People in an Apartheid State.  She is a 2022 Moi University African Cluster Centre Fellow, 2018 JIAS Fellow and 2016 DIVA (Danish International Visiting Artist).  Wanner’s accolades include being selected among  2020’s New African 100 Most Influential Africans  and Brittle Paper’s  Literary Person of the Year in the same year. She has edited three multinational anthologies and has contributed to a few. Wanner’s work has been translated into Portuguese, French, Spanish and Kiswahili. She has given several keynote addresses across the world on literature in Africa and black feminisms. You can hear her distinctive laugh in an African city near you without notice.