Makhosazana Xaba (born 10 July 1957) is a South African poet and short-story writer. She trained as a nurse and has worked a women's health specialist in NGOs, as well as writing on gender and health. She is Associate Professor of Practice in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg.[1]
Makhosazana Xaba | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1957 (age 66–67) Greytown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| Alma mater | University of the Witwatersrand |
| Occupation(s) | Poet and short-story writer |
| Awards | South African Literary Awards Short Story Award |
Biography
editMakhosazana (Khosi) Xaba was born in Greytown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, to Glenrose Nomvula Mbatha and Rueben Bejanmin Xaba, the second of five children.[2] She has an MA degree in creative writing from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) and is working on a biography of Noni Jabavu.
Xaba won the Deon Hofmeyr Award for Creative Writing (2005) for her unpublished short story "Running".[2] Her poems have appeared in publications including Timbila, Sister Namibia, Botsotso, South African Writing, Green Dragon and Echoes,[2] and have been collected in These Hands (2005)[3] and Tongues of Their Mothers (2008). A book of her short stories, Running and Other Stories, was published in 2013,[4] and won the 2014 Nadine Gordimer South African Literary Awards Short Story Award.[5]
Xaba is editor of the 2026 anthology Like the Untouchable Wind: An Anthology of Poems, about "the life, experience and visions of African lesbians".[6][7]
She is also a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.[8]
With Athambile Masola, Xaba introduced the book Noni Jabavu: A Stranger at Home, a collection of Jabavu's Daily Dispatch columns, published in 2023.[9][10]
Works
edit- These Hands: Poems. Timbila Poetry Project, Elim Hospital, Limpopo Province, 2005. Poetry. ISBN 978-0958464086.
- Tongues of Their Mothers. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008. Poetry. ISBN 978-1869141448.
- Running and Other Stories. Cape Town: Modjaji Books, 2013. Fiction. ISBN 978-1920590161.
- Like the Untouchable Wind: An Anthology of Poems (editor). Harare: MaThoko's Books, 2016. Poetry anthology. ISBN 9781928215479.
- The Alkalinity of Bottled Water. Botsotso Publishing, 2019. Poetry. ISBN 9780994708168
References
edit- ^ "Meet the team - Future Professors Programme - FPP Operational Team". Future Professors Programme. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ a b c "A Brief Biography of Makhosazana Xaba", Art for Humanity, 31 August 2011.
- ^ Molema, Leloba, "Review", Archived 6 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Feminist Africa 5, pp. 153–157, African Gender Institute.
- ^ "L'AFRIQUE ECRITE AU FEMININ | Les auteures anglophones". aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ^ Running and Other Stories at African Books Collective.
- ^ Xaba, Makhosazana (2016). Like the Untouchable Wind: An Anthology of Poems. MaThoko's Books. ISBN 9781928215479 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Like the untouchable wind: An anthology of poems" at GALA.
- ^ Magwood, Michele (5 July 2019). "'New Daughters of Africa' Is a Powerful Collection of Writing by Women from the Continent". Wanted.
- ^ "Noni Jabavu: A Stranger at Home". NB Publishers. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
- ^ Masola, Athambile (22 March 2023). "Noni Jabavu was a pioneering South African writer - a new book shows how relevant she still is". The Conversation. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
- Mzamisa, Palesa (2008). "New voices", Wordsetc, Third Quarter, pp. 31–36.
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