Just Arrived

Fresh off the plane from The Book Lounge in Cape Town,  Fred Khumolo's books, Bitches' Brew and Dancing the Death Drill,. He was attending a book festival in Cape Town and I enlisted the help of the good people at Book Lounge to track him down and personalise two of his books for me. These books are headed for my TBR stack immediately.

Fred is from Mpumalanga, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa and currently lives in Johannesburg. Hi holds an MA in creatice writing from Wits University. His desire to write started in high school and he is now a gifted writer who has contributed to the written word as a journalist, columnist, contributor, short story writer, and novelist.

His novel Bitches' Brew was the joint winner of the 2005 European Union Literary Award (now the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award). Touch My Blood, his autobiography was short-listed for the Alan Paton Prize for Non-fiction. He was runner-up for the 1991 Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award.