Niq Mhlongo

Niq Mhlongo was born in 1973 in Soweto. His first novel, Dog Eat Dog, was published by Kwela in 2004 and was translated into Spanish under the title Perro Come Perro in 2006. This Spanish edition was awarded the Mar des Lettras prize. Besides writing novels and short stories, Niq has written a screenplay for the animated children’s TV series Magic Cellar and scripts for a comic magazine called Mshana, the first issue of which appeared in February 2007. Way Back Home, his third novel, was published in 2013 and his first short story collection, Affluenza, was released in 2016. His second collection, Soweto Under the Apricot Tree, was published in early 2018.

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