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The Kopano Matlwa Collection: Coconut, Spilt Milk and Period Pain

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“Matlwa takes on themes of gender, race and national identity with a distinctive and engaging voice, pinwheeling from humorous to heart-stabbing and (almost) back again […]” – AnOther Magazine

“In my view Matlwa is South Africa’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,” – Rosie Rowell, The Bookseller

“Matlwa’s voice is one we need.” – Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You

“Exploring faith and education, inheritance and renewal, Matlwa’s inventions are both human and divine.” – Booklist

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Dimensions 212 × 136 × 30 mm
Author

Kopano Matlwa

Author Information

Kopano Matlwa won the 2006/2007 European Union Award for her first novel, Coconut, which went on to become a bestseller and a classic South African novel. Her subsequent novels, Spilt Milk and Period Pain, focus on the ‘Born Free’ generation, and address issues of race, class and colonisation. Matlwa won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa in 2010. She took a medical degree from the University of Cape Town, completed a Master’s in Global Health Science and was awarded a doctorate in Population Health from Oxford University where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She lives in Johannesburg.

ISBN

9781431430772

Year of Publication

2023

Month of Publication

December

Language

English

Imprint

Jacana Media

Format

Paperback

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