Rešoketšwe Manenzhe

Rešoketšwe is a South African villager & storyteller. Her debut novel, Scatterlings, won the 2020 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award, the 2021 HSS Award for Best Fiction, the 2021 UJ Prize for South African Fiction in English, the First-Time Author award at the 2021 South African Literary Awards, was shortlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times Literary Awards, and went on to be included in the list of best books released in 2022 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. The book has since been translated into seven languages.

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Her short stories and poems have appeared in The Kalahari Review, Fireside Fiction, Lolwe, FIYAH, and the 2017 Sol Plaatjie European Union Anthology, among others. She has won the 2019 Writivism Short Story Prize, the 2021 Akuko Short Story Competition, and she was the first runner-up for the 2019 Collins Elesiro Prize for Fiction.