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Monday, February 17, 2025

SHUBNUM KHAN AT TIME OF THE WRITER FESTIVAL

 

(Left: Shubnum Khan. Pic supplied)

The Centre for Creative Arts is thrilled to announce that Shubnum Khan will be joining the programme at the Time of the Writer Festival! Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to experience her talent and insights.

Author and artist based in Durban, her acclaimed debut novel, Onion Tears (2011), was shortlisted for the Penguin Prize for African Writing and the University of Johannesburg Debut Fiction Prize. 

Her quirky essay collection, How I Accidentally Became a Global Stock Photo, was published in South Africa and India in 2021.

Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, McSweeney’s, HuffPost, Oprah Magazine, The Sunday Times, Marie Claire and elsewhere. Her latest novel, The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil (2024) was released in South Africa, and globally to wide acclaim as The Djinn waits a Hundred Years.

To find out more about the Time of the Writer Festival, click on the logo advert for the Centre for Creative Arts to the right of this article.