Sifiso Mzobe

Sifiso Mzobe is a crime thriller writer, content editor and translator. He was born in Umlazi Township, south of Durban, where he obtained his primary schooling and where he currently resides. After attending St. Francis College, he studied Journalism at the Damelin Business Campus in Durban.

His debut novel, Young Blood, charts the life of a teenager who drops out of high school and joins a car hijacking syndicate. So raw was Mzobe’s rendition of the story that Young Blood went on to win the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for Best English Fiction, the SALA First Time Published Author Award and the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.

Young Blood has been translated into German and published in Germany by the renowned publishing house, Peter Hammer Verlag. In 2020 Mzobe’s Young Blood was published in the USA and Canada by Catalyst Press.

His collection of short stories titled Searching for Simphiwe was published by Kwela Books in April 2020. Mzobe has mentored numerous young writers who have gone on to publish short stories.

Papa dearest

Sifiso Mzobe New writing 2022-08-30

Stemme | Voices | Amazwi is LitNet’s series of 15 short, powerful monologues, presented in collaboration with Suidoosterfees, NATi and ATKV. In Sifiso Mzobe’s Papa dearest, a man remembers his late father who kept smiling while fading away into the arms of death. Sonwabo Mpandle performs the monologue, directed by Gaerin Hauptfleisch. Watch the performance here. The monologue text is also available.

Tribute to Keorapetse William "Bra Willie" Kgositsile

Sifiso Mzobe In memoriam 2018-01-09

"You walked stride by stride with giants. And, when the time came, you returned to us, held our hands and helped us take baby steps."

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