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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”

Kriben Pillay

Kriben Pillay KRIBEN PILLAY is a former College Dean of Teaching and Learning in the College of Law and Management Studies at the University

Chris Mann

Chris Mann Chris Mann (1948-) was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and spent the first fifteen years of his working life in rural

John William Colenso

John William Colenso John William Colenso (1814-1883) was born in St. Austell, Cornwall England. He received a degree in Mathematics from Cambridge. After teaching

Jenny Hobbs

Jenny Hobbs Jenny Hobbs (1937 – ) was born in Durban and attended Durban Girls College, St. Annes Diocesan College and the then-University of

Dumisani Sibiya

Dumisani Sibiya Dumisani Sibiya was born in 1976 in Nquthu, Northern KwaZulu-Natal. Sibiya is an award-winning novelist who writes predominantly in IsiZulu and holds

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.