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Indian Roots South African Heart

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Mary Renault

Mary Renault Mary Renault (1905 – 1983) who adopted this pseudonym for writing, was born Mary Challans and was an English writer best known

Bessie Head

Bessie Head Bessie Head (1937-1986), one of Africa’s most prominent writers, was born in Pietermaritzburg’s Fort Napier Mental Institution. The child of an “illicit”

Adrian Flett

Adrian Flett Flett (1936 – ) was born in Pietermaritzburg and grew up on a farm in the Richmond area. He was farm schooled

Jan van Tonder

Jan van Tonder .Jan Christiaan van Tonder was born on 29 August 1954 and grew up in Durban. He has a degree in psychology

Fred Khumalo

Fred Khumalo Fred Khumalo (1966 – ) was born in Chesterville, and grew up in Mpumalanga Township near the industrial area of Hammersdale, Durban.

Malla Nunn

Malla Nunn Malla Nunn was born in Swaziland in Southern Africa. She attended Florence Christian Academy, a “mixed race” boarding school. In the 1970s

What is Literary Tourism?

Literary Tourism is tourism that deals with places and events from fictional texts as well as the lives of their authors. This could include following the route a fictional character charts in a novel, visiting particular settings from a story or tracking down the haunts of a novelist.

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Hello and welcome to the KZN Literary Tourism website. Through this site, we aim to provide an invaluable resource for those interested in the relatively new field of Literary Tourism as well as provide information on the work we are currently doing from our base in Durban, South Africa.