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Podcast: The Hidden Lives of Writers
Episode: S01 E07 Zukiswa Wanner
Description: 2020 Goethe Medalist and 2023 Einstein Forum Fellow, Zukiswa Wanner, joins Fiona
Snyckers and Gail Schimmel to talk about her roles as a writer, publisher, curator, and speaker. Zukiswa describes how she often walks around with an idea in her mind for a long time before finally sitting down and producing a first draft at speed – frequently writing many thousands of words a day. She describes mining a shebeen in Thembisa for inspiration for a character in her forthcoming novel.
Zukiswa takes us all the way back to her first novel, The Madams, and spills the news
that it...