Rešoketšwe Manenzhe
South African poet, short-story writer, and novelist best known for her debut novel Scatterlings (2020), which won the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award. Her work often explores history, identity, and belonging, and she has also published poetry and short fiction alongside a career in chemical engineering.
Books
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1. Scatterlings
Set in 1920s South Africa as segregationist laws criminalize interracial marriage, this intimate story follows a mixed-race family fractured by the state’s violence and a mother’s devastating act born of exile, despair, and fierce love. In the aftermath, a father and child navigate a landscape shaped by myth, memory, and the brutal machinery of nation-building, searching for belonging and a future amid grief, displacement, and the pull of ancestral roots.
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