Lebohang Masango earned her Master of Arts degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is a writer and an award-winning poet. She is the award-winning author of children’s book, Mpumi’s Magic Beads (David Philip, 2018), which is available in all 11 of South Africa’s official languages. The book has been awarded the 2018 South African Independent Publishers Award for Children’s Books, 2019 South African Literary Award for Children’s Literature, the 2019 Exclusive Books IBBY SA Award for Best Writer and a 2020 gold Pendoring Advertising Award in the Publication Design – Whole Publication category. She has co-authored Grow to Be Great: Awesome African Achievers with Dr Judy Dlamini (Sifiso Publishers, 2020) and Mpumi and Jabu’s Magical Day (David Philip, 2020) with Professor Claudine Storbeck, the Director for the Centre for Deaf Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand and it has been awarded a 2021 silver Pendoring Advertising Award in the Publication Design – Whole Publication category. She has written Nanana Boselesele for Wimpy and Ethnikids’ ‘Our Stories, Your Language’ campaign, co-authored O Šomile, Kolobe Ya Ditšhila for Save the Children (SA) in 2020 and written The Great Cake Contest as part of the voluntary literacy initiative Book Dash in 2018. Her most recent book, The Soft Life was published in 2022.
