An Electronic Interview with Sindiwe Magona
Sindiwe Magona is the author of a two-volume autobiography, To My Children’s Children (1990) and Forced to Grow (1992). She has also published two collections of short stories, Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night (1991) and Push-Push! & Other Stories (1996). Her first novel, Mother to Mother...
Enregistré dans:
| 发表在: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
|---|---|
| Auteurs principaux: | , , |
| 格式: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 语言: | Anglais |
| 出版: |
Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
|
| 在线阅读: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 总结: | Sindiwe Magona is the author of a two-volume autobiography, To My Children’s Children (1990) and Forced to Grow (1992). She has also published two collections of short stories, Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night (1991) and Push-Push! & Other Stories (1996). Her first novel, Mother to Mother, inspired by the politically-motivated murder of Amy Biehl, an American Fulbright scholar conducting research in South Africa in 1993, was published in 1998.Magona was born in August 1943 in Gungululu, a village near Tsolo, in the former Transkei. She grew up in the squatter camps and townships of Cape Town. She holds degrees from the University of South Africa and Columbia University. She is presently working for the United Nations in New York, where she has held a full-time position since 1984. In 1992, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Hartwick College, New York.The following interview was conducted in November 2000 through email correspondences between the author and two scholars at the University of Pretoria. These are Siphokazi Koyana, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, and Professor Rosemary Gray of the English Department. |
|---|