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.
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.
John Dube
John Dube John Dube (1871 – 1946) was born in the Inanda district and was the author of the first historical novel in Zulu.
Bhoowan Prakash (BP) Singh
Bhoowan Prakash (BP) Singh Bhoowan Prakash (BP) Singh (1963- ) was born in Tongaat located on the North Coast. The son of a
Angelina N. Sithebe
Angelina N. Sithebe Angelina Ntombizanele Sithebe was born and raised in Soweto , Johannesburg and matriculated from Inanda Seminary in Durban. A graduate geologist
Bridget McNulty
Bridget McNulty Bridget McNulty (1982-) was born and grew up in Durban, a city she is still strongly attached to – in real life
Fred Khumalo
Fred Khumalo Fred Khumalo (1966 – ) was born in Chesterville, and grew up in Mpumalanga Township near the industrial area of Hammersdale, Durban.
Andy Mason
Andy Mason Andy Mason (1954 – ) (pseudonym N.D. Mazin used sometimes) is a cartoonist who was born in Pietermaritzberg and studied at the
