Lewis Nkosi

Lewis Nkosi ( born December 5, 1936 in Durban, † September 5, 2010 in Johannesburg) was a South African writer, university teacher, journalist and composer.

Biography

Nkosi began his career as a journalist at the appearing in isiZulu newspaper Ilanga lase Natal before moving to the beginning of the 1950s to the magazine Drum. When he received in 1960 a grant of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism study at Harvard University, he was forced to leave South Africa and was located until 1991 in exile.

In the following years he was a professor of literature at universities in Zambia, Warsaw, London, the University of California, Irvine and the University of Wyoming operates.

During this time he began as a writer and has written works, including The Rhythm of Violence ( 1964), The Black Psychiatrist (2001) and We Can not All Be Martin Luther King. In addition, he published novellas as Mating Birds ( 1986), Underground People ( 2002) and Mandela 's Ego (2006 ) and numerous volumes of essays.

Bibliography

• White Shadow, OT: . Mating Birds, German by Eva Bornemann Ullstein Verlag 1990, ISBN 3-548-22235-8, about work. Re: dtv 2003, ISBN 3-423-13103-9.