Caine Prize for African Writing
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Edition 17 (2016) Winner
Lidudumalingani Mqombothi
リドゥドゥマリンガニ・ムコムボシ
Lidudumalingani Mqombothi
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- Zikhovane, Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Nationality
- South African
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Eastern Cape (birthplace) → Johannesburg (worked/active)
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Filmmaker, Photographer
- Active Years
- 2010-
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Caine Prize for African Writing | Memories We Lost | — | The Caine Prize | winner |
| 2016 | Miles Morland Scholarship | Support to work on Let Your Children Name Themselves | — | Miles Morland Foundation | recipient |
Caine Prize for African Writing
2016
Work:
Memories We Lost
Organization:
The Caine Prize
Result:
winner
Miles Morland Scholarship
2016
Work:
Support to work on Let Your Children Name Themselves
Organization:
Miles Morland Foundation
Result:
recipient
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Memories We Lost
2016 Short storyA short story that explores memory, displacement and familial ties against the backdrop of post-apartheid South Africa, dealing with loss and reconstruction of personal and communal memories.
memorymigrationcity and home
Bibliography
- Goodbye John Shoes Moshoeu (Africa Is A Country, 2015)
- The Art of Suspense (The Chimurenga Chronic, 2016)
- Memories We Lost (short story, 2016)
- The Seduction of Johannesburg (caineprize.com, 2016)
- The Portfolio (Mail & Guardian, 2019)
- Notes on migration, the city and home (Johannesburg Review of Books, 2019)
- Writers do not write alone (Johannesburg Review of Books, 2020)
- A city caught between two moments (Johannesburg Review of Books, 2020)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Lyrical prose with strong visual imageryA style that moves between essayistic reflection and narrative
- Recurring Motifs
- memory and lossthe city (e.g. Johannesburg)migration and belonging
Legacy
An internationally noted contemporary South African writer and visual artist following his Caine Prize win. He probes memory and urban experience in short fiction and has influenced multiple fields through filmmaking and festival curation.
In Popular Culture
- Selected as curator for the African Book Festival Berlin (2022)
Trivia
- Won the 2016 Caine Prize for the short story 'Memories We Lost'.
- Received a Miles Morland Scholarship in 2016 to work on the novel Let Your Children Name Themselves.
- Active as a writer, filmmaker and photographer.