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NIQ MHLONGO

Niq MhlongoNIQ MHLONGO has a BA from the University of the Witwatersrand, majoring in African Literature and Political Studies. 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.

He has also written two published short stories, Goliwood Drama, published by Jacana in the anthology The Obituary Tango (2006), and The Dark End of Our Street, which appears in the German anthology Yizo Yizo (Peter Hammer Verlag Missio, 2005) under the title Auf der Schattenseite.

Besides writing novels and short stories Niq has also written a screenplay for the animated children’s TV series Magic Cellar, and scripts for a new comic magazine called Mshana, the first issue of which will appear later this year.

Photograph by Lisa Skinner



More info:

A profile of Niq Mhlongo, from The Time of the Writer Festival's site

Read a review of Dog Eat Dog, from the African Review of Books

Distributing the
word to the kwaito generation
: an article by Niq Mhlongo

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