Pumla dineo gqola biography books

South African academic and feminist (born 1972)

Pumla Dineo Gqola (born 3 December 1972) is a South African academic, writer, and feminist, best known for her 2015 book Rape: A South African Nightmare^[1], which won the 2016 Alan Paton Award, and Female Fear Factory, which won the 2022 Best Non-Fiction Monograph Award from the South African National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS)^[2].

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Pumla Dineo Gqola is also the recipient of the German Falling Walls Foundation 2023 Breakthrough Award in Humanities and Social Sciences ^[3] and the CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa.^[4]In addition, she was awarded the Ruth First Fellowship^[5] by the University of the Witwatersrand in 2016 and the Black Feminisms and the Polycrisis Fellowship^[6] by The New Institute in Hamburg in 2024.

She is a professor of literature at Nelson Mandela University, where she holds the South African Research C Rape: A South African Nightmare - Pumla Dineo Gqola - Google ... RIWO