Angela Makholwa

Angela Makholwa is a South African author, the first black writer to write crime fiction in South Africa.^{[citation needed]}

Life[]

Born in Johannesburg,^[1] Makholwa graduated in journalism from Rhodes University. She worked as a magazine journalist and public relations consultant for several agencies before establishing her own public relations firm, Britespark Communications, in 2002.^[2] She came to the literary scene in 2007 with Red Ink, the first crime fiction by a black author in South Africa. In Red Ink the fictional detective, Lucy — a successful public relations writer — is drawn into investigating a horrifying series of rapes and murders:

It has suspense, violence, murder. Best of all it carries no old South African baggage: this is the indifferent world of new bling South Africa.^[3]

Makholwa followed this up two years later with a chick-lit novel, The 30th Candle (2009). Her third novel was Black Widow Society (2013) and her latest novel The Blessed Girl was released in October 2017.

Works[]

• Red Ink, Pan Macmillan, 2007
• The 30th Candle, Pan Macmillan, 2009
• Black Widow Society, Pan Macmillan, 2013
• The Blessed Girl, Pan Macmillan, 2017

References[]

External links[]

• Talking authors: Angela Makholwa, Mail & Guardian, 25 November 2009

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