Zukiswa Wanner, born in Zambia to a South African father and a Zimbabwean mother, is a writer. Her debut novel, The Madams, was shortlisted for the K. Sello Duiker Award in 2007. It was followed by
Behind Every Successful Man, published by Kwela in 2008, Men of the
South, also by the same publisher in 2010.
Men of the South was shortlisted for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Her latest novel, London Cape Town Joburg, was published by Kwela in 2014. She was
named one of the Hay Festival’s Africa39 authors. She sits on the Writivism Board of Trustees and started the ReadSA initiative to encourage South Africans to read African books.
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