- Farida Karodia
Farida Karodia (born 1942) is a
South Africa n novelist and short-story writer.By 1961 she was teaching in
Johannesburg, South Africa and alsoZambia . In 1968 the government of South Africa withdrew her passport so she emigrated toCanada . She remained there, where she published her first novel and did radio drama, until returning to South Africa in 1994.Her first novel was "Daughters of the Twilight" was published in 1986. Although she was living in Canada at the time, the book concerns what difficulties non-whites faced in getting an education under
apartheid . However by 1990 she had also written about Canada. Further during time spent inIndia in 1991 she wrote and filmed "Midnight Embers". In 2002, her novel "Other Secrets" was among those nominated for an IMPAC Dublin Award.Still she is perhaps primarily a writer of the short form however and the collection "Against an African Sky and Other Stories" was one of her first works after she returned to South Africa.
External links
* [http://www.tsarbooks.com/ TSAR Publications]
* [http://www.litnet.co.za/nosecret/secret.asp An interview with Farida]
* [http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/2002/titles/Karodia.htm Impac Dublin literary award]
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