Van Graan, Mike
Van Niekerk, Philip
Vera, Yvonne
Verwoerd, Hendrik F
Vilakazi, Herbert
Vladislavi
, Ivan
Vorster, John
Vumazonke, Xoliswa
Vundla, Mfundi
Waberi, Abdourahman Ali
Walcott, Derek
Wark, Julie
Wicomb, Zoë
Wijnhoud, Gerrit
Williams, Elly
Wilson, Harold
Winfrey, Oprah
Winters, Bob
Wolfe, George
Xaba, Nhlanhla
Xinindlu, Morrison
Yako, Boniwe
Yarrow, Bethany
Yengeni, Tony
Zani, Thami
Zimbe, John
Zuma, Jacob
Zakes Mda is a professor of creative writing at Ohio University. He has been a visiting professor at both Yale and the University of Vermont. Among his novels (all published by FSG and/or Picador),
The Heart of Redness
won the Hurston/ Wright Legacy Award. He lives in Johannesburg and Athens, Ohio.
Copyright © 2011 by Zakes Mda
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Originally published in 2011 by Penguin Books, South Africa
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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eISBN 9781429949934
First eBook Edition : November 2011
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First American edition, 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mda, Zakes.
Sometimes there is a void : memoirs of an outsider / Zakes Mda.â1st
American ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. Mda, ZakesâChildhood and youth. 2. Mda, ZakesâHomes and hauntsâSouth Africa. 3. Mda, ZakesâHomes and hauntsâLesotho. 4. Authors, South Africanâ20th centuryâBiography. I. Title.
PR9369.3.M4 Z46 2012
828â².914âdc22
[B]
2011020817