What follows now is a short extract from her short story collection Intruders, published in 2018 to critical acclaim. Born and raised in Soweto, Johannesburg, Mashigo now resides in a sleepy suburb of Cape Town where as she describes it people either ‘start families or retire.’ She is also the author of the novel-adaptation of the film Beyond the River. She is also a co-writer of South Africa’s first black superhero comic Kwezi, and has released albums and performs under the stage name Black Porcelain. Her first novel won the University of Johannesburg prize for debut novel, and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Awards. Mohale Mashigo is a novelist, performer and singer-songwriter, the author of The Yearning and the short story collection, Intruders. As the world so radically changes we hope these conversations and ideas give you insight and inspiration to think about how else we might live and create collectively, going forward. We invite you to share your responses to these with us via email at We’ll share these on the blog, where you’ll also be able to find the full transcript of each episode with links to the books, writers and ideas that we discuss. Following the interview you’ll be treated to two prompts designed by novelist and creative writing tutor extraordinaire Louis Greenberg.
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