Phaswane mpe biography definition

South African poet and novelist

Phaswane Mpe (10 September 1970 – 12 December 2004)^[1] was a South African poet and novelist. He was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was a lecturer in African literature. He did his master's degree in publishing at Oxford Brookes University in 1998.

His debut novel, Welcome to Our Hillbrow, was published in 2001. A collection of short stories and poems, Brooding Clouds, was published posthumously in 2008.

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Mpe was born in the northern city of Polokwane in Tiragalong,^[2] and moved to Johannesburg at the age of 19 to attend university,^[1] and ended up living in the deprived inner city area of Hillbrow, a place where he later set his first novel. Welcome to Our Hillbrow was an important work as it was the first novel to deal with the changes of inner-city life in South Africa in the ten years since Nelson Mandela and F.

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