Zakes Mda

Zakes Mda is a novelist and playwright who has won numerous international awards and has received every major South African literary prize, including the African Region Commonwealth Prize for Literature. He was recently awarded the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Mda's works deal with the realities of post-apartheid South Africa and are often about forgiveness and reconciliation, both of which he sees as essential for the future of South Africa.

A very thought provoking interview, particularly the discussion about African oral literature having always been a "conversation between the living and the fourth dimension and by fourth dimension, of course, we are not only talking about the dead, but we are also talking about the unborn," and the use of communal voice as a method of narration and lastly, the discussion on how he became a beekeeper and proving of course, the obvious connections between life and art. Enjoy.

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