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Ronnie Govender

Ronnie Govender Ronnie Govender (1934 – ) was born in Cato Manor, Durban, and has strong feelings about this community as is evident in

Marí Peté

Marí Peté (nèe Greyling) (1964 – ) was born in Middelburg (Mpumalanga province) and grew up in Witbank, where she matriculated at Hoërskool Patriot

William Plomer

William Plomer William Charles Franklyn Plomer (1903 – 1973) was a prolific author of biographies, autobiographies, poetry, librettos, prose fiction and non-fiction. Plomer was

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

Mariam Akabor

Mariam Akabor Mariam Akabor (1984 -) was born in Merebank, Durban. She is a graduate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s creative writing program. Akabor

Andrea Abbott

Andrea Abbott Andrea Abbott (nee Kullin) was born in Durban in 1954. She matriculated from Danville Girls High and enrolled at the then University

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.