Miriam Tlali

Miriam Tlali
Born	1933 Doornfontein, Johannesburg[1]
Nationality	South African
Ethnicity	black
Genres	fiction

Miriam Tlali (born 1933, Johannesburg) is a South African novelist. She was the first black woman in South Africa to publish a novel.^[1], Muriel at Metropolitan. She was also one of the first to write about Soweto.

Tlali wrote Muriel at Metropolitan (1979, originally Between Two Worlds), a semiautobiographical work. She later wrote other books such as Amandla (1980), Mihloti (1984), and Footprints in the Quag (1989).^[2]

Further reading

• Bernth Linfors and Reinhard Sander, Twentieth century Caribbean and Black African writers. 1996. Published by Detroit: Gale Research.
• Derek Attridge and Rosemary Jane Jolly, Writing South Africa: Literature, apartheid and democracy 1970 - 1995. 1998. Published by Cambridge (UK) and Cambridge University Press (New York).
• Christina Cullhed, Grappling with Patriarchies: Narrative Strategies of Resistance in Miriam Tlali's Writings. Doctoral dissertation. 2006. Published by Uppsala University.
• Sarah Nuttall, 'Literature and the Archive: The Biography of Texts'. Refiguring the Archive. Ed.Carolyn Hamilton. Cape Town: David Philip, 2002.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Miriam Tlali". WOMEN'S WORDS: AFRICAN WORLDS. August 21, 2010. http://womenswordsafricanworlds.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/miriam-tlali/. Retrieved July 17, 2011. 
2. ^ "Tlali, Miriam"; The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2007.

External links

• Works by or about Miriam Tlali in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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Name	Tlali, Miriam
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Short description	South African novelist
Date of birth	1933
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