Kopano Matlwa

Kopano Matlwa Mabaso is a South African author whose bestselling, prize-winning debut, Coconut , was written when she was twenty-one years old and went on to win the European Union Literary Award and was joint winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Her second novel, Spilt Milk , was published to high acclaim. Matlwa was selected for the 21 Icons project, recognizing young game changers in South Africa, and in 2015 she won the Aspen Ideas Award for medical innovation. She is...See more

Kopano Matlwa Mabaso is a South African author whose bestselling, prize-winning debut, Coconut , was written when she was twenty-one years old and went on to win the European Union Literary Award and was joint winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Her second novel, Spilt Milk , was published to high acclaim. Matlwa was selected for the 21 Icons project, recognizing young game changers in South Africa, and in 2015 she won the Aspen Ideas Award for medical innovation. She is a Rhodes Scholar and a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford. See less