Lewis Nkosi | |
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 Nkosi at the Centre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Languages, University of Durban-Westville, 2001 | |
| Born | 5 December 1936 Embo, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| Died | 5 September 2010 (aged 73) Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Nationality | South African |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, journalist, essayist, poet |
| Notable work | Mating Birds (1986); Mandela's Ego (2006) |
Lewis Nkosi (5 December 1936 – 5 September 2010) was a South African writer and journalist, who spent 30 years in exile as a consequence of restrictions placed on him and his writing by the Suppression of Communism Act and the Publications and Entertainment Act passed in the 1950s and 1960s. A multifaceted personality, he attempted multiple genre for his writing, including literary criticism, poetry, drama, novels, short stories, essays, as well as journalism.