Makhaosazana Xaba

Biography

Makhosazana Xaba was born in South Africa in 1957. She is the author of several poetry collections, including The Alkalinity of Bottled Water, These Hands, and Tongues of Their Mothers. She trained as a nurse before earning a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Witwatersrand. She is now a professor of humanities at the University of Johannesburg. In addition to poetry, she is a short story writer. Her collection of stories, Running and Other Stories, was published in 2013 and won the 2014 Nadine Gordimer South African Literary Awards Short Story Award.
Ahmad Yamani was born in 1970 in Cairo, Egypt. He graduated from Cairo University in 1992, earning a bachelor's degree in Arabic literature. He also earned a doctorate in Arabic philology from Complutense University in Madrid. He worked at the broadcaster RTVE. He has published several books of poetry in Arabic and one in his adopted language, Spanish. Yamani has translated numerous Spanish-language writers into Arabic, among them José Ángel Valente, Rubén Darío, César Vallejo, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Miguel Casado, Rosendo Tello, Ángel Guinda, Agustín Porras, and Roberto Bolaño. His collections of poems include Mid Rooms, Wrong Places, and Flowers in the Head.

Birth Date

1957-01-01

Place of Birth

Country of Nationality

South Africa

Languages Spoken

English

University of the Witwatersrand, University of Zululand, International Institute of Journalism, Berlin, Midlands Psychiatric Nursing College , Edenvale College of Nursing

Poetry Collections

These Hands: Poems (Timbila Poetry Project, Elim Hospital, Limpopo Province, 2005);
Tongues of Their Mothers (Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008);
The Alkalinity of Bottled Water (Botsotso, SA. 2019)

Sources

"Makhosazana Xaba." The Poetry Archive, https://poetryarchive.org/poet/makhosazana-xaba/. Accessed 14 July 2022.

"Makhosazana Xaba." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 18 September 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhosazana_Xaba. Accessed 18 November 2024.

"Makhosazana Xaba." Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, https://wiser.wits.ac.za/users/makhosazana-xaba. Accessed 14 July 2022.