Makhosazana Xaba

uSolwazi uMakhosazana Xaba (owazalwa ziyi-10 kuNtulikazi 1957) ungumbhali wezinkondlo waseMzansi nomlobi wezindaba ezimfushane. Uqeqeshwe njengomhlengikazi futhi usesebenze njengozempilo wabesifazane kwizinhlangano ezingenz' inzuzo, kanye nokubhala ngobulili nempilo. UnguSolwazi wokugala abafundi kuMnyanga wobuntu kwiNyuvesi i-University of Johannesburg.

uMlandompilo

UMakhosazana (Khosi) Xaba wazalelwa eMgungundlovu (eGreytown), KwaZulu-Natal, eNingizimu Afrika, ezalwa nguGlenrose Nomvula Mbatha kanye noRueben Bejanmin Xaba, umntwana wesibili ezinganeni ezinhlanu. Uneziqu ze-MA ezifundweni zokuloba azethweswa eNyuvsi I-University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) futhi usabhala umlandompilo kaNoni Jabavu.

U-Xaba wathola umklomelo we-Deon Hofmeyr kwezokuloba (2005) ngendaba yakhe emfushane engashicilelwanga ethi "Running". Izinkondlo zakhe ziye zavela kwizishicilelo ekubalwa kuzo i-Timbila, Sister Namibia, Botsotso, South African Writing, Green Dragon and Echoes, futhi zaqoqelwa kwi-These Hands (2005) kanye ne-Tongues of Their Mothers (2008). Incwadi yezindaba zakhe ezimfushane, i-Running and Other Stories, yashicilelwa ngo-2013, futhi yawina i-2014 UNadine Gordimer South African Literary Awards Short Story Award.

UXaba ungumhleli wesiqoqelo sika-2026 esithi Njengomoya ongathinteki: isiqoqelo sezinkondlo, esikhuluma "ngempilo, izinakazelo kanye nekusasa labesimame abathandana nabobulili obufanayo".

Uphinde waphosa itshe esivaveni kwisiqoqelo sika-2019 esithi Amadodakazi amasha ase-Afrikha, esasihlelwe nguMargaret Busby.

Beno-Athambile Masola, u-Xaba wethula incwadi ethi Noni Jabavu: isihambi ekhaya, isiqoqelo sezishicilelo zephephandaba zikaJabavu kwiDaily Dispatch ngo-2023.

Imisebenzi

• Lezi Zandla: Izinkondlo. I-Timbila Poetry Project, Elim Hospital, Limpopo Province, 2005. Izinkondlo. .ISBN 978-0958464086
• Izilimi Zomama Babo. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008. Izinkondlo.  ISBN 978-1869141448
• Ukugijima Nezinye Izindaba. [Umthombo Wesithombe ekhasini 9] Izinganekwane.  ISBN 978-1920590161
• Njengomoya ongathinteki: Isiqoqelo sezinkondlo (umhleli). I-Harare: Izincwadi zikaMaThoko, 2016. Iqoqo lezinkondlo.  ISBN 9781928215479
• ubutshodiso bamanzi asebhodleleni. Izinkondlo.  ISBN 9780994708168ISBN 9780994708168