Miriam Tlali
Miriam Masoli Tlali [ tlɑdi ] ( born 1933 in Johannesburg, Miriam Tladi wrong occasionally ) is a South African writer. She was the first black South African woman who was able to publish a book in their home country, and one of the first writers who wrote about Soweto.
Life
Miriam Tlali was born in Johannesburg's Doornfontein neighborhood and grew up in Sophiatown district. She enrolled at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, the approval was withdrawn because of their skin color. She studied henceforth in Lesotho at the former Pius XII College in Roma.
Miriam wrote Tlali 1969, the semi- autobiographical Between Two Worlds, which was released as Muriel at Metropolitan in 1975 and 1979 was banned in South Africa. It was released in the same year by Longman African Classics under the original title and in 1989 a German translation as Divided World. This Tlali depicts the life of poor blacks in the rich city of Johannesburg. More books are Amandla! (1980 ), which is about the 1976 uprising in Soweto and was briefly banned after publication, Mihloti (1984) and Soweto Stories, published in 1989. In addition, she wrote the drama Crimen Injuria. In Germany their books published Divided World and Soweto Stories ( 1992) in the Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag.
Miriam Tlali 1978 was one of the founders of the magazine Staffrider that should stimulate creative writing against apartheid and for which she wrote the column Soweto Speaking, and co-founder of the book publishing Skotaville.
Others
The spelling of the surname Miriam Tlalis corresponds instead of the usual spelling of the Sesotho in Lesotho, so Tlali, as usual in South Africa, Tladi.
Awards
- 2005: South African Lifetime Achievement Literary Award
- 2008: South African National Orders ' Presidential Award Ikhamanga ( Silver )
- The Miriam Tladi Book and Reading Club in Johannesburg was named after Miriam Tlali.