Masande Ntshanga is the Caine Prize nominated winner of the 2013 PEN International New Voices Award. He was born in East London in 1986 and graduated with a degree in Film and Media and an Honours degree in English Studies from UCT, where he became a creative writing fellow, completing his Masters in Creative Writing under the Mellon Mays Foundation. He received a Fulbright Award and an NRF Freestanding Masters scholarship. His stories have appeared in
Laugh It Off,
itch,
Imago and
Habitat. He has also written for
Rolling Stone magazine.
The Reactive, excerpted here, was nominated for the Etisalat Prize for Fiction and shortlised for The
Sunday Times Fiction Prize. It is forthcoming in the US with Two Dollar Radio.
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