biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1937–86)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Pietermaritzburg, E South Africa. She published all her major work while living in Botswana from the mid-1960s until her death. Each of her first three novels - When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), Maru (1971), and A Question of Power (1974) - set lonely protagonists in a context of political and sexual oppression. Later works, such as The Collector of Treasures (1977) and Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind (1981), give literary form to Setswana folk tales and oral tradition. |
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