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Kopano Matlwa
South African writer (born 1985)
Kopano Matlwa (born 1985) is a South African writer and doctor, known for her novel Spilt Milk, which focuses on the South Africa's "Born Free" generation,[1] and Coconut, her debut novel, which addresses issues of race, class, and colonization in modern Johannesburg.[2]Coconut was awarded the European Union Literary Award in 2006/2007 and also won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa in 2010.
Spilt Milk was on the longlist for the 2011 Sunday Times Fiction Prize.[3] She is currently the Executive Director of the Zero Stunting Campaign which is a South African multi-funder initiative that aims to reduce the prevalence of stunting in South Africa by 2020.[4]
Early life
Kopano Matlwa Mabaso (née Matlwa) was born in 1985 in a township outside of Pretoria, South Africa.
She began writing in 2004, when HIV was devastating South Africa, later saying: "Writing was debriefin