Kagiso Lesego Molope

Kagiso Lesego Molope is a South African Canadian novelist and playwright. Born and raised in South Africa, Kagiso Lesego Molope graduated from the University of Cape Town and moved to Canada at age 21. She was the first Black author to win the Percy FitzPatrick Award.^[1] She was also the first Black novelist to win the Ottawa Book Award in 2019. Her first Novel, Dancing in the Dust, was the first novel by an indigenous South African author to be on the IBBY List. McClelland & Stewart has acquired world rights to her fifth novel We Inherit the Fire.^[2] ^[3]

Works

Dancing in the Dust, Mawenzi House, 2002
The Mending Season, Oxford University Press, 2005
This Book Betrays My Brother, Mawenzi House, 2018
Such a Lonely Lovely Road, Mawenzi House, 2018
Maya Angelou: Black Woman Rising, Play. Nordic Black Theatre, 2019-2023

Prize and Awards

2014 Winner, Percy FitzPatrick Award (for This Book Betrays My Brother)
2019 Winner, Ottawa Book Award (for This Book Betrays My Brother)
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 Nominee, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

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References

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[1] "Kagiso Lesego Molope is at odds with Percy Fitzpatrick". Mail and Guardian. May 7, 2015.

[2] "The Many Perspectives of Kagiso Lesego Molopes". Carleton Newsroom.

[3] From South Africa to Canada: The writer’s journey of Ottawa’s Kagiso Lesego Molope/

[4] The House of Mothers: Constructing alternative forms of mothering in Kagiso Lesego Molope's The Mending Season

[5] Myth of the Lying Woman”: An Analysis of Testimony in Contemporary South African Fiction

[6] Kagiso Lesego Molope (CBC Books)

[7] Kingston Writers Fest 2018 Kagiso Lesego Molope

[8] Kagiso Lesego Molope ALMA Award Nominee

[9] This Book Betrays My Brother Quill and Quire Review

[10] Such a Lonely, Lovely Road Quill and Quire Review

[11] Afrika 4 Teens Mending Season Review

[12] “These Children Were the Product of a Changing Country”: The Feminist Bildungsroman and the Issue of Community in the Novels of Kagiso Lesego Molope

[13] "How Kagiso Lesego Molope's thesis on the LGBTQ community in South Africa inspired her latest novel," CBC

[14] "Rights Deals: Téa Mutonji, Kagiso Lesego Molope + five more"

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