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Biography
Winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Award, Imraan Coovadia is the author of the novels The Wedding, Green-eyed Thieves, and High Low In-between. He teaches at the University of Cape Town.
Praise for Green-eyed Thieves:
A highly original work from a South African writer.
– Jane Rosenthal, Mail & Guardian
Coovadia has created a glorious firework of a book. His prose fizzes along, full of invention and wit, and his story touches on major issues with the lightest hands.
– Margaret von Klemperer, The Witness
Green-eyed Thieves is in a space and maybe a class of its own ... A real treat.
– Chris Dunton, The Sunday Independent
The most fiercely intelligent fun you can have between two (book) covers ... an exhilarating ride.
– Jacqui L’Ange, Cape Times
Titles published by Umuzi
Green-eyed Thieves, 2006
High Low In-between, 2009
Word from the Author
“... I have lived in London, Melbourne, Boston and New York – but always Durban as well ... I’ve gone through phases of feeling ½ South African and ½ American, but these fractions have now changed …
“My favorite small word is ‘but’ ...”
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