Sabata-mpho Mokae is a novelist, translator and academic. He writes in English and Setswana (a southern African language). He is the author of a teen novella Dikeledi and a biography The Story of Sol T. Plaatje. His first novella, Ga ke Modisa won the M-Net Literary Award for Best Novel in Setswana as well as the M-Net Film Award in 2013. He also won the South African Literary Award in 2011. In 2014 he was a writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa in the USA. He has translated Gcina Mhlophe’s two children’s books, Semaka sa Dinaane [Our Story Magic] and Dinaane tsa Aforika [Stories of Africa] from English to Setswana. Mokae also received the inaugural Lesedi la Afrika Award in 2017. His third novel, Moletlo wa Manong, was published in September 2018. Mokae is teaching creative writing at the Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley, South Africa.
Biography
Sabata-mpho Mokae is a novelist, translator and academic. He writes in English and Setswana (a southern African language). He is the author of a teen novella Dikeledi and a biography The Story of Sol T. Plaatje. His first novella, Ga ke Modisa won the M-Net Literary Award for Best Novel in Setswana as well as the M-Net Film Award in 2013. He also won the South African Literary Award in 2011. In 2014 he was a writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa in the USA. He has translated Gcina Mhlophe’s two children’s books, Semaka sa Dinaane [Our Story Magic] and Dinaane tsa Aforika [Stories of Africa] from English to Setswana. Mokae also received the inaugural Lesedi la Afrika Award in 2017. His third novel, Moletlo wa Manong, was published in September 2018. Mokae is teaching creative writing at the Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley, South Africa.
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