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Sipho Richard Kekezwa
Unemployed for the past 10 years, Sipho Kekezwa lives with and is supported by his other half in Khayelitsha. His dream is to be a successful writer and a language services provider. A prolific wri...view moreUnemployed for the past 10 years, Sipho Kekezwa lives with and is supported by his other half in Khayelitsha. His dream is to be a successful writer and a language services provider. A prolific writer, he spends most of his time either reading a novel or the Bible, writing by using the free computer access offered by the Smartcape project or, if not, in a writers’ workshop. This is his third attempt at the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature Awards, his first being shortlisted for in 2009, a novel that he went on to self-publish. His second novel, also self-published, received a publishing grant from the Centre for the Book, an agency of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport. Sipho has won different prizes, mostly runner up prizes in writing competitions both in English and isiXhosa. This novel, Ndizigwaze ngowam! (I have stabbed myself with my own spear) was first written in 1997/1998 as a radio drama, then as a stage drama. When attempts to have it published or broadcast on air failed, he rewrote it as a novel.view less