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Shabbir Banoobhai

Shabbir Banoobhai Shabbir Banoobhai (1949 – ) was born in Durban and lived there until his move to Cape Town in 1995. Of necessity

Tony Park

Tony Park was born in 1964 and grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney. He has worked as a newspaper reporter in

Tyron Love

Tyron Love Tyron Love (1982 – ) is a KwaZulu-Natal-born cartoonist. In 2000, he enrolled for (and later completed) a degree in animation at

Margaret Daymond

Margaret Daymond Unknown-2021. After a first degree at the University of Natal (UN) and an MA from the University of Cambridge, Margaret Daymond took

Bessie Head

Bessie Head Bessie Head (1937-1986), one of Africa’s most prominent writers, was born in Pietermaritzburg’s Fort Napier Mental Institution. The child of an “illicit”

Ncamisile Makhambeni

Ncamisile Makhambeni Ncamisile Makhambeni (1947 – ) was born in Durban. She is a qualified nursing sister who has an MA degree in African

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.