Zukiswa wanner biography of william

  • Zukiswa Wanner is a Zambian-born, Zimbabwean raised author who's made a name for herself within the world of publishing, journalism and African-focused.
  • She is a Joburg-residing novelist, blogger, and short-story writer.
  • Born to a South African father and a Zimbabwean mother in Zambia, Zukiswa Wanner is the author of the novels The Madams (), Behind Every Successful Man.

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    Zukiswa Wanner is a Zambian-born, Zimbabwean raised author who&#;s made a name for herself within the world of publishing, journalism and African-focused activism.

    Introduced into the world in , Wanner spent her formative years hard on the heels of a post-colonial Zimbabwe during the 80s and 90s. She cites Shimmer Chinodya&#;s release, Harvest of the Thorns, as one of the texts that inspired her to pursue writing as a career.

    Such passion was the driving force behind her decisions to study Journalism at university, graduating from Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu. Though Wanner also hilariously claims that she chose that university because that was the only place she knew of where her parents didn&#;t have friends who could spy on her. She began her working life writing opinion pieces for various publications, though it wasn&#;t until she released her debut novel in her early 30s that she felt like a writer.

    Zukiswa Wanner. Photo courtesy of Brittlepaper

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    In this 24th year of the Time of the Writer Festival, as we face a global pandemic for the second year, it seemed important that as I looked at the larger festival theme, “The Writer: Witness, Canary in the Mine or Testifier”, I focused too on the writer’s voice in a political, social and artistically conscious world.

    I focus on this because it’s the world we live in. For what is writing, without politics or society, and how meaningful is it if not executed artistically?Many readers in South Africa, and some on the continent, are familiar with Niq Mhlongo’s Dog Eat Dog and Thando Mgqolozana’s Unimportance. In the two novels, Dingz in Dog Eat Dog and Zizi in Unimportance, find themselves fighting an education system set up to make it near impossible for poor students to attain higher education.

    Many would say Mhlongo and Mgqolozana were canaries in the mine, foreseeing the doom, or revolution — depending on which side of

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    This brief interview features a young, dynamic South African writer, Zukiswa Wanner. She is a Joburg-residing novelist, blogger, and short-story writer. Zukiswa was born in Zambia to a South African father and a Zimbabwean mother. Her mother claims that she has been rebellious ever since her birth at the momentous time of the Soweto Uprisings.



    Wanner, who did her primary and high school education in Zimbabwe, studied journalism at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu. Her debut novel, The Madams, published in November , dealt with racial role reversals in post-apartheid South Africa. In addition to writing fiction, she has also contributed essays to Oprah, Elle and Juice magazines, and literary reviews and essays to Afropolitan and Sunday Independent. Behind Every Successful Man()is her second novel. A funky, witty tale of a mother turned entrepreneur &#; to the great exasperation of Andile, her husband and BEE tycoon.



    Zukiswa is a founder member of the ReadSA initiative,