Angela Makholwa

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Angela Makholwa
Born
Johannesburg, South Africa
Alma mater Rhodes University
OccupationAuthor
Known forOne of the first black authors to publish crime fiction in South Africa
Notable workRed Ink (2007)

Angela Makholwa is a South African author, one of the first black writers to write crime fiction in South Africa. [1]

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Life

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, [2] Makholwa graduated in journalism from Rhodes University. She worked as a magazine journalist and public relations consultant for several agencies before establishing her own public relations firm, Britespark Communications, in 2002. [3] She came to the literary scene in 2007 with Red Ink, the first crime fiction by a black author in South Africa. In Red Ink, the fictional detective, Lucy — a successful public relations writer — is drawn into investigating a horrifying series of rapes and murders:

It has suspense, violence, murder. Best of all it carries no old South African baggage: this is the indifferent world of new bling South Africa. [4]

Makholwa followed this up two years later with a chick-lit novel, The 30th Candle (2009). Her third novel was Black Widow Society (2013) and her fourth novel, The Blessed Girl, was published in October 2017. Her last novel, Critical, But Stable, was released in 2021.

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References

  1. ↑ "A Beginner's Guide to African Crime Fiction". CrimeReads. 9 January 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
  2. ↑ "South Africa the focus at London Book Fair", British Council, 8 April 2010, via Artslink.co.za.
  3. ↑ CISA Literary Festival Archived September 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Mike Nicol, reviewing the novel in Crime Beat. Quoted in Charles J. Rzepka & Lee Horsley, eds, A Companion to Crime Fiction, p. 288.

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