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South African writer (born )

Kopano Matlwa (born ) is a South African writer and doctor, known for her novel Spilt Milk, which focuses on the South Africa's "Born Free" generation,^[1] and Coconut, her debut novel, which addresses issues of race, class, and colonization in modern Johannesburg.^[2]Coconut was awarded the European Union Literary Award in / and also won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa in Spilt Milk was on the longlist for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize.^[3] She is currently the Executive Director of the Zero Stunting Campaign which is a South African multi-funder initiative that aims to reduce the prevalence of stunting in South Africa by ^[4]

Early life

Kopano Matlwa Mabaso (née Matlwa) was born in in a township outside of Pretoria, South Africa.

She began writing in , when HIV was devastating South Africa, later saying: "Writing was debriefing for myself, trying to make sense of all