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Read Zakes Mda’s Sunday Times Literary Awards keynote address
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In his Sunday Times Literary Awards keynote speech, Zakes Mda spoke about how fiction exposes the truth behind the facts.

Mda won the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize on the night, for his novel Little Suns, and Greg Marinovich won the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction, for Murder at Small Koppie: The Real Story of the Marikana Massacre.

To read the full address click on the link above!

Categories Fiction South Africa

Tags Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Fiction Little Suns News Penguin Random House SA Sunday Times Literary Awards Umuzi Writing Zakes Mda


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