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| Sifizo Msobe's Young Blood |
Sifizo
Msobe, a South African beats Nigeria’s Prof Adimora Ezeigbo and Bridget Pitt of
Zimbabwe to the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa 2012.
Msobe’s book titled Young Blood, won the
writer $20,000 prize during the grand finale held at the ceremony held at the
Civic Centre, Lagos yesterday night.
Ezeigbo’s is Roses and Bullet and Pitt’s
The Unseen Leopard were the two other nominees that lost out.
Mzobe was born in
Umlazi Township, Durban, where he also went to school. After attending St
Francis College, he studied Journalism at Damelin Business Campus in Durban.
He works for a community newspaper in Durban as a journalist.
He works for a community newspaper in Durban as a journalist.
Published by Kwela Books in
2010, Msobe’s Young Blood won the prestigious Sunday Times Literary Award for
best fiction The book is about organised crime set in Umlazi, Durban’s biggest
town.
The author, a first timer, attended St
Francis College, and studied Journalism at the Damelin Business Campus in
Durban.
He recalls how his earliest writing
memory dates back to when he was 13.
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| Sifizo Msobe |
He says while doing Science subjects in
high school, “ I read a lot of history books and had an affair with words”.
His debut, Young Blood appeared
in the January 2011 issue of the ‘O’ Magazine, among the 'Top 20 Books of the
Summer'. The book was among only four thrillers that were chosen
worldwide to make this notable list. Young Blood was also listed
in the “Sunday Independent's Top Ten Books Of 2010".
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