Authors: Zakes Mda

Sometimes There Is a Void (81 page)

Van Graan, Mike
Van Niekerk, Philip
Vera, Yvonne
Verwoerd, Hendrik F
Vilakazi, Herbert
Vladislavi

, Ivan
Vorster, John
Vumazonke, Xoliswa
Vundla, Mfundi

Waberi, Abdourahman Ali
Walcott, Derek
Wark, Julie
Wicomb, ZoÃ«
Wijnhoud, Gerrit
Williams, Elly
Wilson, Harold
Winfrey, Oprah
Winters, Bob
Wolfe, George

Xaba, Nhlanhla
Xinindlu, Morrison

Yako, Boniwe
Yarrow, Bethany
Yengeni, Tony

Zani, Thami
Zimbe, John
Zuma, Jacob

A Note About the Author

Zakes Mda is a professor of creative writing at Ohio University. He has been a visiting professor at both Yale and the University of Vermont. Among his novels (all published by FSG and/or Picador),
The Heart of Redness
won the Hurston/ Wright Legacy Award. He lives in Johannesburg and Athens, Ohio.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Originally published in 2011 by Penguin Books, South Africa

Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

www.fsgbooks.com

eISBN 9781429949934

First eBook Edition : November 2011

First American edition, 2012

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mda, Zakes.

Sometimes there is a void : memoirs of an outsider / Zakes Mda.â1st

American ed.

p. cm.

Includes index.

1. Mda, ZakesâChildhood and youth. 2. Mda, ZakesâHomes and hauntsâSouth Africa. 3. Mda, ZakesâHomes and hauntsâLesotho. 4. Authors, South Africanâ20th centuryâBiography. I. Title.

PR9369.3.M4 Z46 2012

828â².914âdc22

[B]

2011020817

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