Biography
Rethabile Masilo was born in 1961 in Morija, Lesotho. He fled Lesotho to the United States in 1981, and as a student refugee, he received a BSc in Biology from Maryville College in Tennessee in 1986. He relocated and settled in Paris, France in 1987. His poetry draws attention to the grief and trauma associated with Lesotho’s political struggles. He is the author of Waslap (2015), which won the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. He is also the recipient of the Dalro First Prize in poetry and the Thomas Pringle Award for Poetry. Masilo is the co-editor of literary journal, Canopic Jar.
Languages Spoken
English, Sesotho, French, Setswana and Silozi
Poetry Collections
Waslap (Oxford : The Onslaught Press, 2015); Things that are silent (Hadlow : Pindrop Press, 2012); To kingdom come (Oxford : The Onslaught Press, 2016); Qoaling (Oxford : The Onslaught Press, 2018); Letter to country (Woodstock, IL: Canopic Publishing, 2016); For the children of Gaza (Oxford : The Onslaught Press, July 2014)
