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Penny Haw

Penny Haw Penny Haw was born in Pietermaritzburg in 1963 and grew up on a dairy farm in the Lufafa valley (as featured in

Victor Stiebel

Victor Stiebel Born in Durban he arrived in Britain in 1924 to study architecture at Jesus College, Cambridge. Having designed for theatre wardrobe at

Tony Leon

Tony Leon Tony Leon (1956 – ) is a Durban-born writer. He has written autobiographies that draw mainly from his experiences in politics. For

Jonny Steinberg

Jonny Steinberg Jonny Steinberg (1970 – ) is a South African writer and scholar. In the mid-1990s he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and

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

Sihle Khumalo

Sihle Khumalo Sihle Khumalo (1975 – ) was born in Nqutu in rural KwaZulu-Natal. He completed his matric at Sukuma Comprehensive School in Imbali

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.