A brutally honest literary representation of the black experience in the post apartheid South Africa. Coconut is about growing up black in white suburbs, where the cost of fitting in can be your very identity. Redefining what it means to be young, black and beautiful in the New South Africa. Winner of the European Union Literary Award.
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About the Author
Kopano Matlwa
Dr. Kopano Matlwa Mabaso is a South African public health physician & novelist. She is founding Executive Director of the Grow Great Campaign ―a South African campaign aimed at galvanizing a national commitment to zero stunting in South Africa by 2030.
Kopano is a Rhodes Scholar and an alumnus of the University of Oxford where she gained both her masters and DPhil in Public Health. Kopano is a published fiction writer and the winner of the European Literary Award (2007) and joint winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa (2010). Her three novels Coconut, Spilt Milk and Period Pain are social commentaries on post-apartheid South Africa and between them, have been received over a dozen international rights deals. Period Pain was in 2017/18 shortlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Award, the South African Literary Awards and South Africa’s Humanities & Social Sciences Awards.
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