Angela Makholwa
Angela Makholwa is a South African author, the first black writer to write crime fiction in South Africa.
Life
Born in Johannesburg,[1] Makholwa graduated in journalism from Rhodes University. She worked as a magazine journalist and public relations consultant for several agencies before establishing her own public relations firm, Britespark Communications, in 2002.[2] She came to the literary scene in 2007 with Red Ink, the first crime fiction by a black author in South Africa. In Red Ink the fictional detective, Lucy - a successful public relations writer - is drawn into investigating a horrying series of rapes and murders:
It has suspense, violence, murder. Best of all it carries no old South African baggage: this is the indifferent world of new bling South Africa.[3]
Makholwa followed this up two years later with a chic-lit novel, The 30th Candle. Her third novel, Black Widow Spider, is currently in preparation.
Works
- Red Ink, Pan Macmillan, 2007
- The 30th Candle, Pan Macmillan, 2009
- Black Widow Society, Pan Macmillan, 2013
References
- ↑ South Africa the focus at London Book Fair, 8 April 2010
- ↑ CISA Literary Festival Archived September 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Mike Nicol, reviewing the novel in Crime Beat. Quoted in Charles J. Rzepka & Lee Horsley, eds., A Companion to Crime Fiction, p.288
External links
- Talking authors: Angela Makholwa, Mail & Guardian, 25 November 2009