Event Description
Book Launch: We Inherit the Fire by Kagiso Lesego Molope
Nov 11 5:30-7pm
Stauffer Library room 014 - basement
The novelist and playwright, Kagiso Lesego Molope will be in Kingston to discuss her latest novel with Dr. Juliane Okot Bitek. It has been described as “A gorgeously rendered, unflinching portrait of the fractured relationship between a mother and her daughter—set against the tumultuous end of apartheid in South Africa.”
From the publisher's website: Kagiso Lesego Molope is an Indigenous novelist and playwright of the San people of Southern Africa. She is the author of four other novels: Dancing in the Dust, which was on the IBBY Honour List for 2006; The Mending Season; Such a Lonely, Lovely Road; and This Book Betrays My Brother. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award four times. She is the winner of the 2014 Percy FitzPatrick Award, the 2019 Ottawa Book Award for Fiction, and the 2019 inaugural Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award. Across Southern Africa and in parts of Europe, her works are read in schools in several languages. She wrote the play Maya Angelou: Black Woman Rising, which was staged for five years at Oslo’s Nordic Black Theatre. She lives on the unceded and unsurrendered Anishinaabe Algonquin territory.
No registration required.
In-Person Event
Wed. November 11th + Add to Calendar
Joseph S. Stauffer Library, Queen's University
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Free
