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Magogodi oaMphela Makhene

Magogodi oaMphela Makhene was born in Soweto, South Africa. She is a 2018 MacDowell Colony Fellow and won the Elie Wiesel Foundation Prize in Ethics Essay Contest in 2007. In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, the Harvard Review and Guernica. ‘Innards’ is the title story in a forthcoming collection.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Best Book of 1993: The Smell of Apples

Magogodi oaMphela Makhene

Magogodi oaMphela Makhene on Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples.

Fiction | Issue 148 padlock
Fiction | Issue 148 padlock

Innards

Magogodi oaMphela Makhene

‘To pick the right heart, the old man said, you had to look for depth in the ruby, to prize a raw intensity of colour and a bright gold fat blanketing the angry muscle.’

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