Shubnum Khan, on of the writers featured in our KwaZulu-Natal authors’ database, will be at the Time of the Writer Festival next week. Joining her in the panel discussion Spaces and Places, is fellow first-time author, Nigerian-born Yewande Omotoso, whose Bom Boy beautifully zooms in on the nuances of a single human life.
Khan is a Durban born writer. She has an Honours degree in Media Studies, summa cum laude and a Masters degree in English Studies, cum laude from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in Durban. She began her first novel, Onion Tears, for her dissertation in Creative Writing under the supervision of South African poet, Kobus Moolman. The manuscript was subsequently short-listed for the 2009 Citizen Book Prize and for the Penguin Prize for African Writing in 2010. The novel was published by Penguin in 2011 and was selected for the Exclusive Books Homebru list that year.
