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Nick Mulgrew
Born
Durban, South Africa
NationalitySouth African, British
Occupation(s)Writer and publisher
Years active2013—
Websitenickmulgrew.co.za

Nick Mulgrew (born 1990) is a South African-British [1] novelist, poet, and editor. [2] In addition to his writing, he is the founder and director of the poetry press uHlanga. [3]

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Education

Mulgrew studied English and Journalism at Rhodes University, Makhanda, and later at the University of Cape Town, [4] at which he was a Mandela Rhodes Scholar. [5] He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Dundee. [6]

Writing

Mulgrew is the author of four books, and is best known for his short fiction. His first collection of stories, Stations, was published in 2016 when he was 25. The book was longlisted for the 2017 Edge Hill Short Story Prize [7] and shortlisted for the 2017 Nadine Gordimer Award. [8] Mulgrew eventually won the 2018 Nadine Gordimer Award with his second collection of stories, The First Law of Sadness, which was published in 2017. [9] His stories have elsewhere appeared in The White Review , World Literature Today , and New Contrast.

His first novel, A Hibiscus Coast, was published in South Africa by Karavan Press in 2021. [10] In 2023, he Karavan press published his second novel, Tunnel.

His first poetry collection, the myth of this is that we're all in this together, was published by uHlanga in 2015. [11]

Publishing

In 2014, Mulgrew founded the poetry press uHlanga, [12] which he operates and directs. Mulgrew commissions and designs all of the press's books, and edits most of them. [13]

uHlanga has launched the careers in publication of many South African poets, most notably Maneo Mohale and Koleka Putuma, who are both winners of the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry for titles published by uHlanga. [14] [15]

The press's authors and books have also won various South African awards, including two Ingrid Jonker Prizes (for Failing Maths and My Other Crimes by Thabo Jijana [16] and Zikr by Saaleha Idrees Bamjee [17] ) and two South African Literary Awards for Poetry (for Prunings by Helen Moffett [18] and All the Places by Musawenkosi Khanyile [19] ).

Mulgrew was a founding associate editor of the Cape Town-based literary magazine Prufrock, and continued to be its fiction editor until it ceased publication. [20]

Other work and awards

From 2013 to 2015, Mulgrew was the beer critic for South African Sunday Times. [21]

Mulgrew is the winner of the 2016 Thomas Pringle Award for Short Stories, [22] the National Arts Festival Short Sharp Stories Awards in 2014, [23] and a South African Arts Journalism Awards Special Silver Merit for Features, 2014. He was shortlisted for The White Review Prize [24] and the Ake/Air France Prize for Prose in 2015. [25] He was also a nominee for the South African Arts Journalist of the Year Award in 2014. [26]

Mulgrew won the 2022 K. Sello Duiker Memorial Award for his novel A Hibiscus Coast. [27]

Bibliography

Novels

Short story collections

Poetry

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References

  1. ↑ Ryman, Geoff (15 November 2017). "Strange Horizons - Nick Mulgrew". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "Nick Mulgrew – Biography". www.nickmulgrew.co.za. Archived from the original on 5 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "About". uHlanga. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  4. ↑ "Rhodes University". www.ru.ac.za. Archived from the original on 18 August 2014.
  5. ↑ "Nicholas Mulgrew | the Mandela Rhodes Foundation". Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "Nick Mulgrew – Moving to Edinburgh". Nick Mulgrew. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "Short Story Prize organisers announce diverse longlist for 2017 competition". Edge Hill University. 20 March 2017.
  8. ↑ "Shortlist for 2017 South African Literary Awards announced". Books LIVE. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  9. ↑ "[The JRB Daily] 2018 South African Literary Awards winners announced—Mongane Wally Serote is South Africa's new Poet Laureate". The Johannesburg Review of Books . 7 November 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  10. ↑ "Karavan Press title: A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew". Karavan Press. 9 April 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  11. ↑ "Nick Mulgrew, the myth of this is that we're all in this together". uHlanga. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  12. ↑ "'Liminal spaces': An interview with Nick Mulgrew". 13 January 2016.
  13. ↑ Guest, Africa in Words (27 November 2020). "Q&A: Words on the Times– Nick Mulgrew, founder & director of uHlanga Press" . Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  14. ↑ "Koleka Putuma's Collective Amnesia Wins the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, Nick Makoha & Dami Ajayi Shortlisted". Brittle Paper. 2 June 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  15. ↑ "Mohale wins Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry". news.unl.edu. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  16. ↑ "Thabo Jijana wins the 2016 Ingrid Jonker Prize for Failing Maths and My Other Crimes". Books LIVE. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  17. ↑ "Saaleha Idrees Bamjee wins the 2020 Ingrid Jonker Prize for Poetry in English". uHlanga. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  18. ↑ "2017 South African Literary Awards winners announced!". Books LIVE. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  19. ↑ "Musawenkosi Khanyile wins the 2020 SALA for Poetry in English". uHlanga. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  20. ↑ "Home". KZN Literary Tourism.
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  22. ↑ "Nick Mulgrew receives the prestigious Thomas Pringle Short Story Award". New Africa Books. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  23. ↑ "Congratulations to the Short.Sharp.Stories. Adults Only winners". Two Dogs / Mercury @ Books LIVE. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  24. ↑ "Prizes - The White Review".
  25. ↑ "Ake/Air France Prize". Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  26. ↑ http://www.basa.co.za/festival-and-basa-announce-arts-journalism-awards/ [ dead link ]
  27. ↑ LitNet (10 November 2022). "Press release: 2022 South African Literary Awards winners announced". LitNet. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  28. ↑ Nick, Mulgrew (2023). Tunnel. Cape Town: Karavan Press. ISBN   9780639774855 . Retrieved 16 July 2023.
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