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Nthikeng Mohlele

Biography

Nthikeng Mohlele was partly raised in Limpopo and Tembisa Township, and attended the University of the Witwatertsrand, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Dramatic Art, Publishing Studies and African Literature. He is the author of five critically acclaimed novels: The Scent of Bliss (2008), Small Things (2013), Rusty Bell (2014), Pleasure (2016) and Michael K (2018). Pleasure won the 2016 University of Johannesburg Main Prize for South African Writing in English as well as the 2017 K. Sello Duiker Memorial Prize at the South African Literary Awards. Illumination is Mohlele’s sixth novel.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

Pleasure (2016), Mohlele’s fourth novel, won the University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing in English. He has also twice been selected as one of the exceptional Young South Africans in the Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans Report in the Arts and Entertainment category.

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