Kagiso Lesego Molope
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Kagiso Lesego Molope is an Indigenous 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. In 2018 Molope began her masters in Film Studies and African Studies at Carleton University.[1] She was the first Black author to win the Percy FitzPatrick Award.[2] 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.[3] [4] In 2019, Molope also won the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award, for her book Such A Lovely, Lonely Road[5].
On May 7, 2024 Molope was invited to the Politics and Pen Gala a fundraiser hosted by the Writers Trust. During the gala Molope made a speech regarding the death toll and humitarian costs of Israels military campaign in Gaza. Her speech was met with boos and heckles from the audience. When she returned to her seat she was escorted out by security. The Writers Trust later apologized for her treatment.[6][7]
Selected works
[edit]- 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
Awards and honours
[edit]- 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
[8] [9] [10] [11] [12][13] [14] [15][16] [17] [18]
References
[edit]- ^ Rubinstein, Dan (March 4, 2019). "Kagiso Lesego Molope Discovers Her Form of Expression". Carleton Newsroom. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Kagiso Lesego Molope is at odds with Percy Fitzpatrick". Mail and Guardian. May 7, 2015.
- ^ "The Many Perspectives of Kagiso Lesego Molopes". Carleton Newsroom.
- ^ From South Africa to Canada: The writer’s journey of Ottawa’s Kagiso Lesego Molope/
- ^ Murura, James (October 17, 2019). "Kagiso Lesego Molope is Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award 2019 winner". Writing Africa: Archiving Africa and Black Literature. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Melope, Kagiso (May 21, 2024). "Why a South African Indigenous woman was the loudest person at the Politics and the Pen Writers' Trust Gala". The Grind. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Leon, Calvi (May 28, 2024). "Writers' Trust apologizes for author's removal from gala after remarks on Israel-Hamas conflict". Toronto Star. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ The House of Mothers: Constructing alternative forms of mothering in Kagiso Lesego Molope's The Mending Season
- ^ Myth of the Lying Woman”: An Analysis of Testimony in Contemporary South African Fiction
- ^ Kagiso Lesego Molope (CBC Books)
- ^ Kingston Writers Fest 2018 Kagiso Lesego Molope
- ^ Kagiso Lesego Molope ALMA Award Nominee
- ^ This Book Betrays My Brother Quill and Quire Review
- ^ Such a Lonely, Lovely Road Quill and Quire Review
- ^ Afrika 4 Teens Mending Season Review
- ^ “These Children Were the Product of a Changing Country”: The Feminist Bildungsroman and the Issue of Community in the Novels of Kagiso Lesego Molope
- ^ "How Kagiso Lesego Molope's thesis on the LGBTQ community in South Africa inspired her latest novel," CBC
- ^ "Rights Deals: Téa Mutonji, Kagiso Lesego Molope + five more"
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