Thando Mgqolozana (born 27 August 1983, in Cape Town, South Africa) is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, a recipient of the Golden Key International Honour for Scholastic Achievement, and one of the Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans of 2010."200 Young South Africans: Arts and Culture", Mail & Guardian, 14 June 2010. He has previously worked as a researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council and is now based at the University of Cape Town.
Mgqolozana is the author of Hear Me Alone (2011), A Man Who Is Not a Man (2009), a novel that enjoyed critical success and was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award,"Behr, Coetzee, Heese, Mda, Mgqolozana, Pauw, Schierhout Make the €100 000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist", Books Live, 15 November 2010. and Unimportance (2014).
Mgqolozana is the co-writer of Inxeba (The Wound) (2017), an award-winning film, inspired by his novel, A Man Who Is Not A Man, about the Xhosa traditional initiation into manhood.
In 2021, his ex-wife accused him of intimate partner abuse.
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External links Thando Mgqolozana on Books LIVE http://www.cca.ukzn.ac.za/index.php/tow-past-participants/79-tow-2015/931-thando-mgqolozana-sou