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Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender

Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender was born in Cato Manor, Durban. Her father is the celebrated playwright, Ronnie Govender who won the 1997

Azad Essa

Azad Essa Azad Essa is an award winning journalist and columnist. He completed a multinational Global Studies MA in 2005 and spent several years

Imraan Coovadia

Imraan Coovadia Born in Durban, Imraan Coovadia (1970 – ) currently resides in Cape Town, where he is a Professor in the English Department

Tom Sharpe

Tom Sharpe Tom Sharpe (1928 – 2013) was educated at Lancing and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his National Service in the British Marines

Jann Turner

Jann Turner (1964 – ) spent her childhood in the Cape until 1978 when her father, Rick Turner, a Natal University academic and anti-apartheid

Rick Andrew

Rick Andrew Rick Andrew (1947 – ) was born in Johannesburg, and moved to KwaZulu Natal in 1966 and has lived there ever since.

What is Literary Tourism?

Literary Tourism is tourism that deals with places and events from fictional texts as well as the lives of their authors. This could include following the route a fictional character charts in a novel, visiting particular settings from a story or tracking down the haunts of a novelist.

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Hello and welcome to the KZN Literary Tourism website. Through this site, we aim to provide an invaluable resource for those interested in the relatively new field of Literary Tourism as well as provide information on the work we are currently doing from our base in Durban, South Africa.